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Lush tall grasses with small white flowers foreground a grove of bushy trees of varying types and heights, their leaves ranging from deep green to golden. Beneath a dense and heavy yellow sky, a small blue triangle suggesting a mountain peak crests above the treeline at far left.

The Poet's Garden

Vincent van Gogh · 1888

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Palette

Moss
 33% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.2:1
Dark olive
 32% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.9:1
Khaki
 20% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.9:1
Charcoal
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.2:1
Olive
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1

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
Date
1888
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
73 × 92.1 cm (28 3/4 × 36 1/4 in.); Framed: 96.6 × 116.9 cm (38 × 46 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Flowers · Gardens
Main colour
Green · lightness 38, colourfulness 25

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. 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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