A work made of woodburytype, from the periodical “galerie contemporaine littéraire, artistique” (1876), volume 1.

Édouard Manet (French painter, 1832-1883)

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) · 1865

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Palette

Ivory
55% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1

Putty
33% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1

Stone
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Taupe
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

Dark chocolate
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.4:1

Walnut
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.3:1

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

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Artist: Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
French, 1820–1910
Date: 1865
Type: Photograph
Medium: Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 1
Size: Image/paper: 11.9 × 8.2 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/4 in.); Mount: 36.3 × 27.8 cm (14 5/16 × 11 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean Levy and the Estate of 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

Édouard Manet (French painter, 1832-1883)

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