Garden at Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet 1840–1926

Garden at Sainte-Adresse (1867) by Claude Monet. Its palette is led by muted azure blue (#717e9c, 26%) and pigeon grey (#9399a1, 17%), with accents of dark golden olive, dark muted blue, yellow and rich brown. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and cool.

Color note

Monet painted outdoors with the new tube paints and synthetic pigments and all but banished black, building shadows from blues and violets. His series of haystacks and of Rouen Cathedral record how the color of one subject changes with the light.

Palette

#717e9c MG 096 muted azure blue 26.1% of canvas
#9399a1 MG 208 pigeon grey 16.6% of canvas
#4c5231 MG 194 dark golden olive 14.8% of canvas
#456172 MG 097 muted blue 11.8% of canvas
#223a51 MG 099 dark muted blue 11.2% of canvas
#232320 MG 222 charcoal 10.0% of canvas
#797d46 MG 045 yellow 5.9% of canvas
#864530 MG 159 rich brown 3.6% of canvas

Color families

Blue 36%, Gray 26%, Brown 20%, Green 8%, Black 7%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.50
Contrast: 0.43
Vividness: 0.040
Warmth: -0.39
Complexity: 148 cells
Hue range: 0.73
Focus: 0.00

Composition

52% of the visual weight is in the left half, 62% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.47 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 25% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 29% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1867
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 98.1 × 129.9 cm
Genre: genre art
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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More by Claude Monet

Luncheon on the Grass, 1866
Regatta at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
Woman in the Garden, 1867
La Grenouillère, 1869
Impression, Sunrise, 1872
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875
Madame Monet wearing a kimono, 1876
Rouen Cathedral, 1892
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899
Water Lilies, 1919