Regatta at Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet 1840–1926

Regatta at Sainte-Adresse (1867) by Claude Monet. Its palette is led by light grey (#b4b6ad, 37%) and grey (#70837b, 20%), with accents of dark muted lime green, muted azure blue and charcoal. Overall the canvas is light, muted 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

#b4b6ad MG 213 light grey 37.5% of canvas
#70837b MG 215 grey 19.8% of canvas
#8290a5 MG 095 muted azure blue 14.4% of canvas
#928f7a MG 173 putty 11.4% of canvas
#325641 MG 059 dark muted lime green 9.4% of canvas
#576f8e MG 096 muted azure blue 5.5% of canvas
#2c2923 MG 222 charcoal 2.0% of canvas

Color families

Gray 41%, Brown 30%, Blue 15%, Green 13%, Black 1%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.65
Contrast: 0.39
Vividness: 0.028
Warmth: -0.31
Complexity: 85 cells
Hue range: 0.75
Focus: 0.01

Composition

55% of the visual weight is in the right half, 74% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.05 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 30% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 30% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1867
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 75.2 × 101.6 cm
Genre: marine art
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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More by Claude Monet

Luncheon on the Grass, 1866
Garden 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