The Laundress

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1877–79

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Palette

Slate
47% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1

Pewter
29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Silver
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1

Green earth
7% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.5:1

Mushroom
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

Taupe
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1

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: 1877–79
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 80.8 × 56.5 cm (31 13/16 × 22 1/4 in.); Framed: 100.4 × 79.4 × 9.6 cm (39 1/2 × 31 1/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Interiors · Work and rural life
Main colour: Grey · lightness 49, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester 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