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Cliffs on the Sea Coast: Small Beach, Sunrise (Falaise au bord de la mer, vu Petite Plage, soleil levant)

Cliffs on the Sea Coast: Small Beach, Sunrise (Falaise au bord de la mer, vu Petite Plage, soleil levant)

Gustave Courbet · 1865

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Palette

Putty
59% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.5:1

Lichen
18% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.8:1

Warm grey
13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Moss
5% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.1:1

Smoke
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Pine
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.7:1

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: Gustave Courbet
Date: 1865
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 35.9 × 60 cm (14 1/8 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 53.7 × 77.5 × 8.9 cm (21 1/8 × 30 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Realism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Sunrise and sunset
Main colour: Green · lightness 66, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Lily Ireland. 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