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A work made of graphite on buff wove paper (discolored to tan).

Water Mills in Meaux

Camille Pissarro · c. 1898

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Palette

Biscuit
 81% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.6:1
Sand
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1
Pale stone
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.8:1
Fawn
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1
Oyster
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.8:1
Bone white
 1% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1

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
Camille Pissarro
French, 1830-1903
Date
c. 1898
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Graphite on buff wove paper (discolored to tan)
Size
10.2 × 16.2 cm (4 1/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 78, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mary Adams Young from the estate of her father Cyrus H. Adams Jr.. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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