A work made of woodburytype, from the periodical “galerie contemporaine littéraire, artistique” (1877), volume 2.

François Coppée (French poet and novelist, 1842-1908)

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) · c. 1876

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Palette

Bone white
33% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.7:1

Iron
25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1

Pale stone
18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1

Taupe
15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

Warm grey
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

Mushroom
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
French, 1820–1910
Date: c. 1876
Type: Photograph
Medium: Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 2
Size: Image/paper: 23.8 × 19.1 cm (9 3/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Grey · lightness 65, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography Gallery Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

François Coppée (French poet and novelist, 1842-1908)

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