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Surrounded by lush, bright foliage, man and a young girl at close range lean against a fence near a lake. The man is smoking, and both wear straw hats.

Near the Lake

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1879–80

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Palette

Blue-grey
 28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Spruce
 26% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.4:1
Leaf green
 19% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.5:1
Walnut
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1
Graphite
 9% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1
Lichen
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.0:1

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
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Date
1879–80
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
47.5 × 56.4 cm (18 11/16 × 22 3/16 in.); Framed: 65.8 × 74.3 × 8.6 cm (25 7/8 × 29 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Green · lightness 44, colourfulness 19

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

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