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Light cyan

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Light cyan (#E0FFFF) is a very pale cool shade that appears across 9 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Fyodor Alekseyev, Telemaco Signorini, and Carle Vernet and the Neoclassicism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Dutch white (#EFDFBB), Khaki (#C3B091), and Mint cream (#F5FFFA). The combination forms a bleached, polar chord, built on a split-complementary spread, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Low Tide at Varengeville 02 palette card
Low Tide at Varengeville 02
Claude Monet · 1882
Winter palette card
Winter
John Henry Twachtman · 1890
Mongolian rider palette card
Mongolian rider
Nicholas Roerich · 1931
Windmill in the field palette card
Windmill in the field
Ivan Shishkin · 1861
The Old Feodosia palette card
The Old Feodosia
Ivan Aivazovsky · 1839
The Source among the Rocks of the Doubs palette card
The Source among the Rocks of the Doubs
Gustave Courbet · 1871

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Light cyan

6 palettes where Light cyan appears prominently — one per artist.

Fyodor Alekseyev Palette 1 - Gleaming Reverie

Fyodor Alekseyev

25.4% Light cyan

Telemaco Signorini Palette 1 - Pearlescent Alabaster

Telemaco Signorini

24.6% Light cyan

Carle Vernet Palette 5 - Soft Ivory

Carle Vernet

21.6% Light cyan

Pasquale Celommi Palette 1 - Gleaming Cream

Pasquale Celommi

20.4% Light cyan

Rosa Bonheur Palette 1 - Soft Ecru

Rosa Bonheur

18.5% Light cyan

Giuseppe Abbati Palette 1 - Soft Tawny

Giuseppe Abbati

17.3% Light cyan

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