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Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

Loosely painted image of an open-air train station. On the right, a parked train gives off an enormous plumb of white smoke, making the scene look as though it were full of clouds. A huddled mass of barely discernible people crowd around the train on both sides of the tracks. Blue, green, and gray tones dominate.

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

Claude Monet · 1877

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Palette

Slate
26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1

Smoke
21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

Ash
20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1

Blue-grey
13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

Silver
11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1

Charcoal
8% 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: Claude Monet
Date: 1877
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 60.3 × 80.2 cm (23 3/4 × 31 1/2 in.); Framed: 80.7 × 100.4 × 10.2 cm (31 3/4 × 39 1/2 × 4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Cities and streets · Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Grey · lightness 46, colourfulness 7

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