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Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare color palette

Claude Monet, 1877. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.

Claude Monet, Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877. Art Institute of Chicago, public domain.

The six colors

  1. Slate#7B8B8CRGB 123, 139, 14026%
  2. Deep dark slate#242C33RGB 36, 44, 5114%
  3. Dark slate#3A4B52RGB 58, 75, 8214%
  4. Stone#ACB1B2RGB 172, 177, 17812%
  5. Blue#4D6A86RGB 77, 106, 1345%
  6. Khaki#96906DRGB 150, 144, 109under 1%

Colors picked by hand by the painter Neli Chaneva. Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.

How the colors work

Slate leads with 26% of the painting, and deep dark slate follows with 14%.

Its values run from 2 (deep dark slate) to 7 (stone), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.

Most of it is near-neutral (92% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.

The same colors in gray

Each color beside its value, from light to dark. Painters check this to see the painting’s structure without its colors.

Stone 7
Slate 6
Khaki 6
Blue 4
Dark slate 3
Deep dark slate 2

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