↗France, late 19th century-early 20th century · c. 1915–26
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
Colour palette
#6F7B88#643524#C67A2C#DBCE6E#EADD7F#BBA368
Approximate colour proportions
Estimated from six colour groups in the museum image, including visible paper or borders. Reproduction and lighting affect the result; these are image-area proportions, not pigment measurements.
Accent colours
Small, vivid details detected in the image. These areas are already included in the dominant groups above; their percentages are not added to the total.
#75863A≈ 0.64%
Photo: Birmingham Museums Trust, CC0 · Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Image licence: CC0 · Web image resized for display. · Museum record & image source ↗
England · 1856
The Blind Girl
John Everett Millais
- Date
- 1856
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Not listed in the source consulted
- Country / context
- England
- Movement / tradition
- Pre-Raphaelite movement · Source ↗
- Collection
- Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK
Two figures share a close foreground while a double rainbow opens the distance. Notice how touch, sound and sight become themes through the figures and landscape. The museum records that the Sussex background and the foreground figures were developed in different places and at different times.
Original educational overview · based on the linked museum recordA MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
