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The Departure of the Boats, Étretat

The Departure of the Boats, Étretat

Claude Monet · 1885

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Palette

Ash
28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1

Pale blue-grey
22% of the image
Teal · text contrast 7.5:1

Iron
22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1

Smoke
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

Powder blue
10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1

Green earth
2% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1

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: 73.5 × 93.5 cm (28 15/16 × 36 13/16 in.); Framed: 102.3 × 121.7 × 10.8 cm (40 1/4 × 47 7/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships · Work and rural life
Main colour: Grey · lightness 55, colourfulness 6

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