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The Great Wave, Sète

A work made of albumen print, no. 17 from the vistas del mar album.

The Great Wave, Sète

Gustave Le Gray · 1857

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Palette

Coffee
34% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.6:1

Shell pink
18% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1

Sepia
18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1

Putty
14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1

Mushroom
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Taupe
6% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.9:1

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

Details

Artist: Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884
Date: 1857
Type: Photograph
Medium: Albumen print, No. 17 from the Vistas del Mar album
Size: Image/paper: 34.1 × 41.8 cm (13 7/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Album page: 50.8 × 64.5 cm (20 × 25 7/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Seascapes and the coast
Main colour: Brown · lightness 45, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Hugh Edwards 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