Water Lilies

Claude Monet · 1906

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Palette

Steel blue
56% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.3:1

Teal
28% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.1:1

Ash
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1

Blue-grey
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

Viridian
3% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1

Emerald
1% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.2:1

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: 1906
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 89.9 × 94.1 cm (35 3/8 × 37 1/16 in.); Framed: 103.2 × 107 × 5.8 cm (40 5/8 × 42 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 20th century
Themes: Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Flowers
Main colour: Blue · lightness 46, colourfulness 16

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