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A snowy landscape in cool tones featuring a prominent, snow-dusted haystack in reddish brown in front of a row of red-brown trees and low, blue mountains, all beheath a pink-gray strip of sky.

Stack of Wheat

Claude Monet · 1890–91

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Palette

Smoke
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Lavender grey
 25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Silver
 25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1
Iron
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Steel blue
 6% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.8:1
Pewter
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Claude Monet
Date
1890–91
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
65.8 × 92.3 cm (25 15/16 × 36 3/8 in.); Framed: 82.6 × 109.6 × 6.7 cm (32 1/2 × 43 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Winter and snow · Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by the Searle Family Trust; Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment; through prior acquisitions of the Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson and Potter Palmer collections; through prior bequest of Jerome Friedman. 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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