Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son

Claude Monet 1840–1926

Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son (1875) by Claude Monet. Its palette is led by light grey (#9ba6ab, 29%) and cool grey (#6d8093, 29%), with accents of rich olive. Overall the canvas is light, 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

#9ba6ab MG 213 light grey 28.7% of canvas
#6d8093 MG 209 cool grey 28.5% of canvas
#495141 MG 176 taupe 21.5% of canvas
#6a6d38 MG 197 rich olive 14.8% of canvas
#c8c2b4 MG 171 bone 6.5% of canvas

Color families

Gray 36%, Brown 27%, Blue 22%, Green 13%, Yellow 2%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.59
Contrast: 0.41
Vividness: 0.036
Warmth: -0.38
Complexity: 85 cells
Hue range: 0.62
Focus: 0.00

Composition

51% of the visual weight is in the right half, 63% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.70 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 17% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 38% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 100.0 × 82.0 cm
Genre: genre art
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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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
La Grenouillère, 1869
Impression, Sunrise, 1872
Madame Monet wearing a kimono, 1876
Rouen Cathedral, 1892
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899
Water Lilies, 1919