Introducing The Palette Studio. Upload any image, or pull a painting or movie from the archive. The Studio distills its palette into a series of chromatic studies, each a different way of seeing the colors within. Copy color values, download studies or browse palettes. 🔗👇

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Induction Chromatique. 1974-1975. Silkscreen on paper

Buckminster Fuller, 4D Tower Time Interval 1 Meter. 1928. Gouache and graphite on paper.

Adolf Wölfli, The Kander Valley in the Bernese Oberland. 1926. Pencil and colored pencil on paper

Anish Kapoor, Untitled. 2025. Gouache on paper

Adolf Fleischmann, Komposition. 1951-52. Oil on canvas

Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni, Phases of the Moon from Kitab al-Tafhim. c. 1029. Ink and pigment, manuscript on paper

A. Marie, Aurora Borealis Seen at Paris, May 13, 1869. 1873. Chromolithograph, from The Atmosphere by Camille Flammarion

Achille Perilli, Consonanze. 1974. Etching and aquatint

František Kupka, The White Disk. 1937. Oil on canvas

Georges Papazoff, Futurs constructeurs du ciel. 1940. Oil on canvas cardboard

Fumio Tomita, Hip dance. 1970s. Serigraphy on paper

František Drtikol, The Sun (Slunce). 1933. Oil on plywood

Félix De Boeck, Composition. 1926. Oil on panel

Camille Graeser, Heitere Musik der Farbe. 1948. Gouache on paper

Benvenuto Benvenuti, Tramonto (Sunset). Oil on panel

Alexander Rodchenko, Abstract Composition No. 60. 1918. Oil on canvas

Adolf Fleischmann, Untitled (#107). 1953. Oil on canvas.

Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass was his most controversial early picture and yet it borrowed heavily from tradition. It takes its subject of a nude female with clothed men from the Pastoral Concert, then attributed to Giorgione and now to Titian (ca. 1505). And the three figures in front echo the group in the bottom right in Raimondi's engraving after Raphael's Judgment of Paris (ca. 1525), clearly inspiring the arrangement.

Four hanging scrolls. Late 1700s-early 1800s Tōensai Kanshi, Beauty in Snow. Kubo Shunman, Chinese Beauty. Kamigaki Hōryū, Courtesan Seated on a Bench. Shiba Kōkan, Beauty in the Snow. Ink and color on silk and paper.

Claude Monet, The Magpie. From 1868 to 1869. For Monet, Snow isn't simply white. He built The Magpie from pale sunlight and colored shadows. The Paris Salon rejected this painting in 1869.