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On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt

Painting of woman in a striped dress seated on the bank of a river, beneath a full, leafy tree, a boat at the shore and a village visible across the river.

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt

Claude Monet · 1868

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Palette

Dark olive
51% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.6:1

Green earth
19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Moss
9% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.6:1

Steel blue
8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.9:1

Ash
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1

Putty
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.2:1

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: Claude Monet
Date: 1868
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 81.5 × 100.7 cm (32 1/16 × 39 5/8 in.); Framed: 98.5 × 117.8 × 8 cm (38 3/4 × 46 3/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes · Flowers
Main colour: Green · lightness 38, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer 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