Vivid, lush view of rolling waves in purple, white, blue, and green against a bright blue sky with a watercolor-like blending of blues and purples. Sea and sky nearly become one.

Seascape

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1879

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Palette

Pale blue-grey
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1

Blue-grey
25% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.3:1

Steel blue
20% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.4:1

Denim
13% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.7:1

Ash
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

Pewter
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1

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: 1879
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 72.6 × 91.6 cm (28 1/2 × 36 in.); Framed: 97.8 × 116.9 × 8 cm (38 1/2 × 46 × 3 1/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast
Main colour: Blue · lightness 61, colourfulness 13

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