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A work made of black chalk, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper.

The Carrot Puller

Vincent van Gogh · 1885

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Palette

Parchment
 26% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.8:1
Putty
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1
Warm grey
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Smoke
 18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Graphite
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.0:1
Soot
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.2:1

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
1885
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper
Size
52.5 × 42.2 cm (20 11/16 × 16 5/8 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 60, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude 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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