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Bust of Patroclus

William Henry Fox Talbot · August 9, 1843

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Palette

Bone white
 34% of the image
Green · text contrast 15.7:1
Mushroom
 28% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1
Taupe
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Chalk
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.0:1
Warm grey
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Pale stone
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.1:1

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
William Henry Fox Talbot
English, 1800–1877
Date
August 9, 1843
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print
Size
Image: 14.9 × 14.5 cm (5 7/8 × 5 3/4 in.); Paper: 23.2 × 18.9 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Green · lightness 73, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson. 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

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