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A work made of pen and brown ink over graphite on cream wove paper.

Landscape at Arles

Vincent van Gogh · July 1888

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Palette

Biscuit
 52% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Fawn
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Tan
 16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Bronze
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Ivory
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.1:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1

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

Details

Artist
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890
Date
July 1888
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink over graphite on cream wove paper
Size
25.4 × 33.9 cm (10 × 13 3/8 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 23

Art Institute of Chicago, Anonymous loan. 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

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