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Pierrot Laughing by Nadar

Pierrot Laughing

Nadar · 1855

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Palette

Taupe
 42% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Chalk
 23% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.5:1
Biscuit
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.7:1
Fawn
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Sepia
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Oyster
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1

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
French, Paris 1820–1910 Paris
Date
1855
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin-coated salted paper print (vernis-cuir)
Size
27.3 x 19.8 cm (10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 62, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1998. 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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