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[Entrance to the Port of Boulogne] by Édouard Baldus

[Entrance to the Port of Boulogne]

Édouard Baldus · 1855

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Palette

Chalk
 42% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.3:1
Graphite
 40% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Taupe
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Mushroom
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Putty
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1
Oyster
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.1:1

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
Édouard Baldus
French (born Prussia), 1813–1889
Date
1855
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Size
28.8 x 43.5 cm (11 5/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships
Main colour
Grey · lightness 62, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund, 1992. 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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