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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Boathouse

Luigi Loir · c. 1885

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Palette

Slate
 30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Graphite
 28% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.4:1
Ash
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Silver
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1
Pewter
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Ink
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.0:1

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
Luigi Loir
Date
c. 1885
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
38.9 × 55.8 cm (15 1/4 × 22 in.); Framed: 55.9 × 69.9 × 5.8 cm (22 × 27 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 43, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Wirt D. Walker Fund. 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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