Young Woman Sewing

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1879

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Palette

Steel blue
45% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.9:1

Warm grey
23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1

Indigo
18% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.2:1

Smoke
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

Celadon
4% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.6:1

Chestnut
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

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: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Date: 1879
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 61.4 × 50.5 cm (24 3/16 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 84.2 × 75 × 10.5 cm (33 1/8 × 29 1/2 × 4 1/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Flowers · Still life · Interiors · Work and rural life
Main colour: Blue · lightness 46, colourfulness 18

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