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Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cézanne · c. 1885

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Palette

Blue-grey
 35% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.3:1
Ash
 30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Tan
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1
Viridian
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.2:1
Sage
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.4:1

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
Paul Cézanne
Date
c. 1885
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
80.2 × 100.6 cm (31 5/8 × 39 5/8 in.); Framed: 107.4 × 127.4 × 10.5 cm (42 1/4 × 50 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Mountains
Main colour
Blue · lightness 54, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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

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