Home
Artists
James McNeill Whistler
Violet and Silver—The Deep Sea

Violet and Silver—The Deep Sea

James McNeill Whistler · 1893

View at the AIC ↗

Palette

Graphite
34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1

Slate
27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1

Blue-grey
22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

Steel blue
9% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.5:1

Pewter
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

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: 1893
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 50.2 × 73.3 cm (19 3/4 × 28 7/8 in.)
Place: Brittany
Period: Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast
Main colour: Grey · lightness 39, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Clara Margaret Lynch in memory of John A. Lynch. 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