Painting of a light-skinned woman dressed in a gauzy white gown with black trim playing an upright paino.

Woman at the Piano

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1875–76

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Palette

Deep teal
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1

Charcoal
25% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.1:1

Sky
21% of the image
Teal · text contrast 7.8:1

Peacock
12% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.5:1

Green earth
5% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.6:1

Powder blue
5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.1:1

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
Date: 1875–76
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 93 × 74 cm (36 9/16 × 29 1/8 in.); Framed: 111.2 × 98.8 × 11.8 cm (43 3/4 × 38 7/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Interiors · Music and dance
Main colour: Teal · lightness 42, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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