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Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
Le Neptune, Place Saint-Pierre à Montmartre

A work made of gelatin silver printing out print.

Le Neptune, Place Saint-Pierre à Montmartre

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) · September 23, 1870

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Palette

Putty
35% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

Ivory
18% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.3:1

Mushroom
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

Pale stone
13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.7:1

Warm grey
13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

Taupe
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1

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: September 23, 1870
Type: Photograph
Medium: Gelatin silver printing out print
Size: Image/paper: 10.1 × 7.4 cm (4 × 2 15/16 in.); Mount: 11.6 × 8.8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Cities and streets · Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 71, 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