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Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect)

Two haystacks, dusted with snow, in a hazy, snow-covered field at sunset. The snow is highlighted in purple tones, the sky a yellow and orange gradient.

Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect)

Claude Monet · 1890–91

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Palette

Lavender grey
62% of the image
Purple · text contrast 5.4:1

Smoke
10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.3:1

Tan
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

Steel blue
7% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.7:1

Salmon
6% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.8:1

Slate blue
5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.5:1

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: 1890–91
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 65.3 × 100.4 cm (25 11/16 × 39 1/2 in.); Framed: 84.2 × 119.7 × 8.9 cm (33 1/8 × 47 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Winter and snow · Sunrise and sunset · Work and rural life
Main colour: Purple · lightness 55, colourfulness 16

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