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Water Lily Pond

Painting of a small pond dense with pink water lilies, their roots visible through the water, a railed footbridge arching over the pond and lush, dark green folliage surrounding it.

Water Lily Pond

Claude Monet · 1900

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Palette

Iron
46% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1

Pewter
19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

Spruce
17% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.9:1

Warm grey
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Green earth
5% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.4:1

Taupe
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

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: 1900
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 89.8 × 101 cm (35 3/8 × 39 3/4 in.); Framed: 112.4 × 122.6 × 10.2 cm (44 1/4 × 48 1/4 × 4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Flowers · Gardens
Main colour: Grey · lightness 39, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial 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