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Cliff Walk at Pourville

Painting of a cliff overlooking the sea. Two figures in long dresses, one with a parasol, stand on the cliff beneath blue sky.

Cliff Walk at Pourville

Claude Monet · 1882

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Palette

Stone
36% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Lavender grey
33% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.3:1

Ash
18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Blue-grey
6% of the image
Teal · text contrast 5.0:1

Green earth
5% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.3:1

Iron
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1

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: 1882
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 66.5 × 82.3 cm (26 1/8 × 32 7/16 in.); Framed: 88.9 × 104.8 × 10.8 cm (35 × 41 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 59, colourfulness 13

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