The Boating Party

Mary Cassatt · 1893/1894

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Palette

Prussian blue
38% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.5:1

Midnight
19% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.6:1

Green earth
14% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.9:1

Smoke
13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

Sage
12% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.2:1

Taupe
4% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.0:1

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

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Artist: Mary Cassatt
1844–1926
Date: 1893/1894
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: overall: 90 x 117.3 cm (35 7/16 x 46 3/16 in.)
Place: American
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Blue · lightness 35, colourfulness 15

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1926: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1997. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

The Boating Party

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