Gustave Doré

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) · 1856-58

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Palette

Iron
28% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

Graphite
24% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1

Taupe
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Warm grey
15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

Smoke
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

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

Details

Artist: Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
French, 1820–1910
Date: 1856-58
Type: Photograph
Medium: Albumen print
Size: Image/paper: 23.6 × 18.7 cm (9 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 38, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean and Julien Levy. 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