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Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)

Painting of softly rendered shapes in pale blue, green, and white. A textured green mass at left resembles foliage. Blue and white cloud-like forms fill the rest of the frame.

Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)

Claude Monet · 1897

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Palette

Pale blue-grey
26% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.6:1

Lavender grey
26% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.6:1

Silver
18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1

Lilac
15% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.7:1

Ash
13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1

Lavender
4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.8:1

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: 89.9 × 92.7 cm (35 3/8 × 36 1/2 in.); Framed: 112.4 × 115.6 × 11.5 cm (44 1/4 × 45 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Rivers and lakes
Main colour: Blue · lightness 65, colourfulness 12

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