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Trouville (Grey and Green, the Silver Sea)

Trouville (Grey and Green, the Silver Sea)

James McNeill Whistler · 1865

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Palette

Taupe
39% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Smoke
22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

Stone
15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

Mushroom
14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1

Fawn
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1

Sepia
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1865
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 51.5 × 77.2 cm (20 1/4 × 30 3/8 in.)
Place: Trouville
Period: Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 54, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer. 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