The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
The Paris apartment white
Monet
Benjamin Moore · 1243
Dusty rose in a Venetian mirror
LRV
39.98
#F4F0E7
Hex
#BFA4A0
244 · 240 · 231
RGB
191 · 164 · 160
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Undertone
Dusty mauve-pink over beige; a rose that has aged into lilac
Whites
Family
Pinks
Ressource Collection
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorMonet
1 roomThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Le Cygne is a whites, Monet a pinks.
How they read
In their own wordsLe Cygne — the swan — is a warm, matte ivory from the French house Ressource. It has the chalky, light-absorbing quality of old lime plaster, which is why it looks so at home on Haussmann panelling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.
Monet is a dusty, mauve-leaning pink with a beige base — a rose that has softened into something closer to lilac. At LRV 40 it is a real mid-tone, dark enough to feel enveloping in a small room and light enough to keep a powder room from going gloomy.