Skip to content

Light & Pigment

Paint colors for your home, inside and out

  • Interior
    • Rooms
      • Bedroom
      • Living room
      • Bathroom
      • Kitchen
      • Hallway
    • Colors
      • Green
      • Blue
      • Grey
      • White
      • Neutral & beige
      • Pink
      • Red
      • Black
      • Yellow
      • Orange & terracotta
    • Light
      • North-facing rooms
      • Small rooms
      • Dark rooms
      • West-facing rooms
    • Styles
      • Modern
      • Coastal
      • Farmhouse
  • Exterior
    • House colors
    • Trim & shutters
    • Colors by roof
  • All guides
  • Paint colors
    • Agreeable Gray
    • Alabaster
    • Shoji White
    • Evergreen Fog
    • Repose Gray
    • Accessible Beige
    • Tricorn Black
    • Aesthetic White
    • Pure White
    • Urbane Bronze
  • Paintings
    • 19th-century French painting
    • 19th-century painting
    • 17th-century Dutch painting
    • 19th-century American painting
    • 15th-century Italian painting
    • 18th-century French painting
    • Claude Monet
    • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    • Edgar Degas
    • Camille Pissarro
  • Contact

Grey Palettes from Famous Paintings

Paintings where grey is one of the main colors, turned into room palettes.

Maria Sheldon Scammon Anders Zorn, 1895 Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare Claude Monet, 1877 Mrs. Benjamin Schaum (Anna Maria Heckensweiler) Jacob Eichholtz, 1808–10 Mrs. Reuben Allerton (Lois Atherton) Ammi Phillips, 1821–22 Portrait of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond (1610-1688) Thomas Flatman, 17th century Phebe Russell Swain Welch Sheldon Peck, c. 1837 Café Singer Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, 1879 Woman with a Green Book (Louisa Gallond Cook) Erastus Salisbury Field, 1838 Portrait of Augustine Taylor John Ramage, 1777–94 Portrait of a Woman Anna Claypoole Peale, 1818
← Newer 1 … 3 4 5 … 7 Older →
Light & Pigment

Paint color guides for real rooms and real light. Colors on screen differ from paint on a wall, so always test a sample.

Color guidesPaintingsAboutContactPrivacy
© 2026 Light & Pigment. Painting images courtesy of the museums named on each page.