Woman in the Garden

Claude Monet 1840–1926

Woman in the Garden (1867) by Claude Monet. Its palette is led by soot (#0b1417, 39%) and yellow (#747b33, 21%), with accents of dark muted lime green, light gold, light grey and rich orange brown. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.

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

#0b1417 MG 223 soot 39.3% of canvas
#384a2b MG 059 dark muted lime green 22.1% of canvas
#747b33 MG 045 yellow 20.8% of canvas
#7387a2 MG 095 muted azure blue 9.3% of canvas
#b1933f MG 038 light gold 3.4% of canvas
#b9a6af MG 213 light grey 2.9% of canvas
#9e4d29 MG 158 rich orange brown 2.2% of canvas

Color families

Black 36%, Green 20%, Brown 19%, Yellow 9%, Blue 8%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.39
Contrast: 0.49
Vividness: 0.042
Warmth: +0.45
Complexity: 208 cells
Hue range: 0.58
Focus: 0.07

Composition

53% of the visual weight is in the right half, 60% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.72 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 13% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 32% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1867
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 82.0 × 101.0 cm
Genre: landscape painting
Collection: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

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More by Claude Monet

Luncheon on the Grass, 1866
Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
Regatta at Sainte-Adresse, 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