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A work made of oil on canvas.

Water Lily Pond

Claude Monet · 1917–19

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Palette

Olive brown
 45% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Taupe
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1
Green earth
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Stone
 8% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.3:1
Khaki
 7% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.2:1
Smoke
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

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
1917–19
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
130.2 × 201.9 cm (51 1/2 × 79 1/2 in.); Framed: 147.4 × 218.5 × 9.9 cm (58 × 86 × 3 7/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Impressionism · 20th century
Themes
Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Flowers · Gardens
Main colour
Brown · lightness 46, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Harvey Kaplan. 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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