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A work made of black chalk on cream laid paper.

Stacks of Wheat

Claude Monet · 1891

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Palette

Parchment
 61% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Putty
 16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Mushroom
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1
Taupe
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Chalk
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.0:1

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
French, 1840–1926
Date
1891
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black chalk on cream laid paper
Size
Primary/secondary supports: 18.2 × 25.4 cm (7 3/16 × 10 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Work and rural life
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 78, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial 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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