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Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
Interior of Le Géant Inflating

A sepia-toned photograph of the inside of an inflating balloon-like space. The floor is all gathered fabric. The wall behind it is a sunrise of radiating lines.

Interior of Le Géant Inflating

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) · 1863, printed later

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Palette

Sepia
41% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

Graphite
26% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.1:1

Taupe
13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Raw umber
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Fawn
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Tan
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1

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: 1863, printed later
Type: Photograph
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Size: Image: 11 × 8.3 cm (4 3/8 × 3 5/16 in.); Mount: 14.7 × 10.6 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Interiors
Main colour: Brown · lightness 36, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Wirt D. Walker Endowment. 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