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The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

Painting of a beach on a cloudy day with several sailboats on the water, a few rowboats on the shore, and two groupings of people on the sand.

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet · 1867

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Palette

Ash
54% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1

Silver
33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

Smoke
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Iron
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1

Graphite
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.9:1

Denim
1% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.4:1

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: 1867
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 75.8 × 102.5 cm (29 13/16 × 40 5/16 in.); Framed: 104.1 × 130.2 × 11.4 cm (41 × 51 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships · Work and rural life
Main colour: Grey · lightness 60, colourfulness 4

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. 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