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[Fontainebleau Forest] by Eugène Cuvelier

[Fontainebleau Forest]

Eugène Cuvelier · early 1860s

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Palette

Graphite
 33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Parchment
 21% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.6:1
Smoke
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Putty
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1
Warm grey
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Lamp black
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.5:1

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
Eugène Cuvelier
French, 1837–1900
Date
early 1860s
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Size
19.8 x 25.8 cm (7 13/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Trees and forests
Main colour
Grey · lightness 51, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation and Joyce and Robert Menschel Gifts, 1988. 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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