A work made of graphite on white wove paper.

Vase of Flowers

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · May 1857

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Palette

Oyster
76% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1

Pale stone
14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1

Silver
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1

Stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Linen
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1

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: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Date: May 1857
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Graphite on white wove paper
Size: 17.3 × 10.3 cm (6 13/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Flowers
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 80, colourfulness 7

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