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[The Great Wave, Sète] by Gustave Le Gray

[The Great Wave, Sète]

Gustave Le Gray · 1857

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Palette

Graphite
 23% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.4:1
Sepia
 22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1
Mushroom
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Putty
 16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1
Oyster
 7% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.7:1

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
Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884
Date
1857
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Size
33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 in.)
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Brown · lightness 49, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of John Goldsmith Phillips, 1976. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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