Dense and varied landscape with open fields, groves of bushy trees, and a row of thin conifers. A light-blue river tranverses the canvas, and a church steeple emerges from the trees at left of center. At far left is a side view of a white house with open shutters, a woman working inside.

Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods

Édouard Jean Vuillard · 1899

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Raw umber
70% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Dark ochre
14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Straw
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.2:1

Stone
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1

Old gold
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Pistachio
2% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.8:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: Édouard Jean Vuillard
Date: 1899
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 249.2 × 378.5 cm (96 1/8 × 149 in.); Framed: 259.4 × 392.5 cm (102 1/8 × 154 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Flowers · Horses · Work and rural life · Trees and forests
Main colour: Brown · lightness 44, colourfulness 28

Art Institute of Chicago, L.L. and A.S. Coburn Fund, Martha E. Leverone, Charles Norton Owen funds, and purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods

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