Impressionism · 1869
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère (1869) by Claude Monet. Its palette is led by muted green (#4d644f, 24%) and light yellow (#9f9a49, 20%), with accents of muted azure teal and bone. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and balanced between warm 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
- #4d644f MG 058 muted green 23.7% of canvas
- #9f9a49 MG 044 light yellow 20.1% of canvas
- #2d3d2a MG 060 dark muted green 19.1% of canvas
- #6d9ca3 MG 081 muted azure teal 14.0% of canvas
- #ced0be MG 171 bone 11.6% of canvas
- #1d2818 MG 061 very dark muted green 11.5% of canvas
Color families
Green 42%, Yellow 17%, Brown 16%, Blue 12%, Gray 8%
Measurements
Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the left half, 55% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.09 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 0% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 35% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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More by Claude Monet
- Luncheon on the Grass, 1866
- Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
- Regatta at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
- Woman in the Garden, 1867
- 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