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[The Salon of Baron Gros] by Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros

[The Salon of Baron Gros]

Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros · 1850–57

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Palette

Soot
 77% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.3:1
Graphite
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Iron
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Taupe
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Stone
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Fawn
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

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
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros
French, 1793–1870
Date
1850–57
Type
Photograph
Medium
Daguerreotype
Size
Image: 22 x 17.1 cm (8 11/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Period
19th century
Themes
Interiors
Main colour
Black · lightness 19, colourfulness 4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Louis V. Bell Fund, Alfred Stieglitz Society and W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gifts, 2010. 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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