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Children Playing on the Beach by Mary Cassatt

Children Playing on the Beach

Mary Cassatt · 1884

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Palette

Warm grey
 46% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Blue-grey
 28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Smoke
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Pale blue-grey
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Prussian blue
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.8:1
Walnut
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.2:1

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
Mary Cassatt
1844–1926
Date
1884
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
overall: 97.4 × 74.2 cm (38 3/8 × 29 3/16 in.)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Grey · lightness 51, colourfulness 9

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce 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

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