Psautier dit de saint Louis
artistic objects
1270
5° 49% 0.67
26° 86% 0.85
239° 95% 0.86
The colour wheel of the Chromobase is the indexing tool of a selection of coloured objects referenced in the database. It is based on the first colour systems including brightness and chroma published by the chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) in Colours and Their Application to Industrial Arts Using Chromatic Circles (1864). This was the result of Chevreul’s 25 years of research and experimentation with colour as the director of the Gobelins Dyeworks in Paris. Building on his earlier work entitled The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours (1839), he devised a precise chromatic nomenclature which ascribed specific technical meanings to colour scale and nuance, thus establishing a highly detailed colour classification scheme. The first plate shows 72 hues at maximum chroma. This plate is followed by nine colour wheels shading progressively towards black. Diagramming the variations in colour obtained by the progressive addition of black to the basic colours of red, yellow, and blue, these ten chromatic circles present nearly 15,000 different shades of colour.
Bottle of coralline
scientific & technical objects
345° 62% 0.97
Lanafuchsine 6B concentrate
scientific & technical objects
14° 66% 0.72
Azofuchsine 6B
scientific & technical objects
319° 69% 0.76
The Majolica Fountain in the International Exhibition
artistic objects
1862-08-30
54° 88% 0.92
7° 80% 0.95
197° 72% 0.92
Sir Patrick Spens
artistic objects
1856
208° 80% 0.86
112° 49% 0.84
36° 78% 0.85
Blue blot
artistic objects
225° 97% 0.91
214° 38% 0.86
Fuchsine on cotton
scientific & technical objects
316° 59% 0.84
Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye
artistic objects
1862
0° 100% 1
275° 66% 0.84
Acid Azo-fuchsine 273
scientific & technical objects
349° 97% 0.88
Trade card, Chocolaterie d'Aiguebelle
artistic objects
1884
162° 94% 0.5
53° 55% 0.88
Vue intérieure de la Sainte-Chapelle
artistic objects
1847
12° 86% 0.83
44° 82% 1
196° 78% 0.76
Elgiva
artistic objects
1854
220° 54% 0.72
47° 20% 0.95
180° 24% 0.81
55° 68% 0.66
"Ponceau" red fuchsine on cotton
scientific & technical objects
20° 85% 0.78
Life’s Illusions
artistic objects
1849
34° 56% 0.94
29° 80% 0.93
31° 90% 0.59
Crimson blot
artistic objects
340° 88% 0.86
324° 52% 0.95
Extract from Wilkinson's On Colour and on the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among all Classes (1858)
artistic objects
1858
0° 100% 0.02
56° 12% 0.93
235° 73% 0.73
14° 84% 0.81
131° 46% 0.65
Stereographic Views of the International Exhibition of 1862
artistic objects
1862
34° 8% 0.98
37° 61% 0.95
197° 83% 0.89
The Tune of the Seven Towers
artistic objects
1857
50° 19% 0.98
231° 94% 0.91
16° 90% 0.78
109° 45% 0.89
Tinted Venus
artistic objects
46° 6% 0.93
Catalogue général de la parfumerie et savonnerie Gellé frères, vers 1885 et 1900
artistic objects
1885
28° 8% 0.95
0° 100% 0.01
43° 45% 0.97
Azofuchsine 6B Bayer
scientific & technical objects
328° 33% 0.74
Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear
artistic objects
1856
243° 92% 0.91
0° 100% 0.5
126° 63% 0.5
Watercolour sketching box
scientific & technical objects
1860
180° 39% 0.79
3° 32% 0.81
Lanafuchsine 6B
scientific & technical objects
301° 62% 0.72
Peintures murales des chapelles de Notre-Dame de Paris exécutées sur les cartons de E. Viollet-Le-Duc relevées par Maurice Ouradou
artistic objects
1870
168° 27% 0.81
214° 55% 0.8
0° 100% 0.88
35° 83% 0.89
Athens, Erechtheion (406 BCE), guilloche molding of an exterior columnar capital with inlays of polychrome glass beads
artistic objects
1836
196° 46% 0.87
61° 52% 0.88
286° 14% 0.82
Oil sketching box
scientific & technical objects
1860
17° 59% 0.47
195° 27% 0.81
Eight maiolica wares by the Ginori manufactory analysed by XRF spectroscopy at the Victoria and Albert Museum
artistic objects
1877
236° 67% 0.74
2° 91% 0.65
54° 88% 0.98
35° 84% 0.9
The Great Bookcase
artistic objects
1862
55° 55% 0.94
2° 76% 0.75
196° 85% 0.77
Fuchsine of concentrated G-acid
scientific & technical objects
332° 94% 0.96
Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends
artistic objects
1868
62° 5% 0.96
65° 25% 0.97
20° 91% 0.53
Extract from the 1821 edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours by Syme
artistic objects
1821
0° 100% 0.02
199° 74% 0.67
164° 100% 0.61
217° 87% 0.69
54° 18% 0.86
Flower Study - Gentian
artistic objects
1862
228° 72% 0.96
73° 77% 0.58
The Shadow of Death
artistic objects
1873
45° 22% 0.95
38° 54% 0.97
264° 4% 1
216° 41% 0.92
Yellow blot
artistic objects
59° 83% 0.98
107° 66% 0.68
343° 49% 0.68
Plate “colour contrasts”
artistic objects
0° 100% 0.95
131° 42% 0.69
51° 80% 0.88
204° 95% 0.92
0° 100% 0.07
Red fuchsine on wool
scientific & technical objects
338° 78% 0.88
Croquis faits au Musée des Monuments français
artistic objects
1812
Fuchsine Renard
scientific & technical objects
1877
297° 84% 0.73
90° 85% 0.6
Register of samples and correspondence, 1850-1930: letter from Camille Koechlin to Horace Koechlin, 4 August 1861
scientific & technical objects
1861
249° 90% 0.72
287° 50% 0.7
310° 6% 0.88
Kaleidoscopic Colour-Top
scientific & technical objects
1858
60° 32% 0.98
136° 39% 0.99
211° 66% 1
7° 87% 1
40° 86% 0.76
Purple fuchsine on silk
scientific & technical objects
259° 59% 0.73
Acid fuchsine on wool & cotton
scientific & technical objects
317° 60% 0.81
325° 5% 0.94
Barnard's sketchbook
artistic objects
1° 43% 0.84
60° 28% 0.99
0° 100% 0.06
219° 45% 0.85
89° 81% 0.66
Detail of yellow and red lustre decoration on a Ginori bowl, seen under normal (left) and ranking light (right)
artistic objects
1859
56° 75% 0.91
235° 77% 0.73
1° 69% 0.8
Histoire archéologique, descriptive et graphique de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais
artistic objects
1857
57° 88% 0.95
0° 100% 0.83
244° 80% 0.87
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl
artistic objects
1864
117° 3% 1
297° 1% 0.03
202° 90% 0.9
0° 100% 0.94
56° 24% 0.93
Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl
artistic objects
1861
90° 2% 0.92
299° 2% 0.98
36° 4% 0.96
The Wedding of St George and Princess Sabra
artistic objects
1857
59° 75% 0.95
207° 82% 0.82
14° 77% 0.86