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Notre Dame de Paris

A work made of oil on composition board.

Notre Dame de Paris

Jean-François Rafaëlli · c. 1890

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Palette

Taupe
56% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Stone
25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

Smoke
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

Graphite
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.2:1

Fawn
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

Soot
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1

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: Jean-François Rafaëlli
Date: c. 1890
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on composition board
Size: 73.6 × 63.5 cm (29 × 25 in.); Framed: 80.7 × 93.1 × 6.4 cm (31 3/4 × 36 5/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Dogs · Cities and streets
Main colour: Brown · lightness 48, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection. 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