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Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont

At seascape rendered in pastel tones. At right, boats line a pink shore underneath a tall cliff. At left, a single red sailboat floats in blue water.

Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont

Claude Monet · 1885

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Palette

Ash
30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

Mushroom
29% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1

Blue-grey
24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Pewter
11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1

Tan
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

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: Claude Monet
Date: 1885
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 69.3 × 66.1 cm (27 1/4 × 26 in.); Framed: 90.8 × 88.3 × 10.8 cm (35 3/4 × 34 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships
Main colour: Grey · lightness 59, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. John H. (Anne R.) Winterbotham in memory of John H. Winterbotham; Joseph Winterbotham 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