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Montagne Sainte-Victoire (The Arc Valley)

A work made of watercolor with graphite, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on cream wove paper.

Montagne Sainte-Victoire (The Arc Valley)

Paul Cézanne · c. 1885

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Palette

Pale stone
68% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.8:1

Putty
20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.9:1

Celadon
4% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.7:1

Ash
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1

Stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1

Mushroom
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1

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: Paul Cézanne
French, 1839-1906
Date: c. 1885
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Watercolor with graphite, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on cream wove paper
Size: 35.4 × 53.7 cm (13 15/16 × 21 3/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Marshall Field, IV. 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