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Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

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Palette

Slate
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1

Smoke
29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

Green earth
27% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Ash
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

Stone
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1

Sepia
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1

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: Georges Seurat
French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris
Date: 1884
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 27 3/4 x 41 in. (70.5 x 104.1 cm)
Period: 19th century
Themes: Rivers and lakes · Dogs
Main colour: Grey · lightness 44, colourfulness 11

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules