Presentation Drawing of "The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World"

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi · 1875

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Palette

Bronze
66% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Raw umber
24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1

Sepia
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.2:1

Fawn
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1

Bone white
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.0:1

Putty
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1

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

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Artist: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
French, Colmar 1834–1904 Paris
Date: 1875
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Charcoal, heightened with white chalk
Size: Sheet: 33 7/16 × 51 3/16 in. (85 × 130 cm)
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 47, colourfulness 21

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Presentation Drawing of "The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World"

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