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A work made of gouache and watercolor, with touches of scraping, on ivory wove paper.

The Auvers Valley on the Oise River

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · after 1884

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Palette

Pale stone
 49% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Graphite
 30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Smoke
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Warm grey
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.9:1
Blue-grey
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · 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
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
or Hyacinthe Eugène Meunier (Eugène Murer; French, 1841–1906)
Date
after 1884
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Gouache and watercolor, with touches of scraping, on ivory wove paper
Size
24 × 30.3 cm (9 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Grey · lightness 57, 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

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