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The Customs House at Varengeville

The Customs House at Varengeville

Claude Monet · 1897

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Palette

Pale blue-grey
52% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1

Taupe
23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Smoke
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1

Lavender grey
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

Warm grey
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Pewter
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1

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: 1897
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 65.6 × 92.8 cm (25 13/16 × 36 1/2 in.); Framed: 83.5 × 110.2 × 5.7 cm (32 7/8 × 43 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Grey · lightness 60, colourfulness 6

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