A work made of gelatin silver printing out paper print.

Le Geant, Champ de Mars

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) · October 18, 1863, probably printed 1880/89

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Palette

Ivory
47% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.7:1

Mushroom
30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

Putty
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

Taupe
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Pale stone
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.0:1

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

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: October 18, 1863, probably printed 1880/89
Type: Photograph
Medium: Gelatin silver printing out paper print
Size: Image/paper: 17.1 × 16.5 cm (6 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.); First mount: 18.8 × 18.4 cm (7 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Second mount: 33 × 24.2 cm (13 × 9 9/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Myths and legends
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 76, colourfulness 15

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