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The Petite Creuse River

The Petite Creuse River

Claude Monet · 1889

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Palette

Slate
52% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1

Pale blue-grey
13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.7:1

Steel blue
11% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.5:1

Graphite
10% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.6:1

Blue-grey
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

Warm grey
5% of the image
Grey · 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: 1889
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 65.9 × 93.1 cm (25 15/16 × 36 5/8 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 109.9 × 7.3 cm (32 3/4 × 43 1/4 × 2 7/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Mountains
Main colour: Grey · lightness 44, colourfulness 7

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