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A work made of oil on linen canvas.

Still Life: Wood Tankard and Metal Pitcher

Paul Gauguin · 1880

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Palette

Smoke
 51% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Lichen
 25% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.0:1
Ash
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Graphite
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1
Raw umber
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1
Green earth
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

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
Paul Gauguin
Date
1880
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on linen canvas
Size
54 × 65 cm (21 1/4 × 25 9/16 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 82 × 7 cm (28 × 32 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Still life · Interiors · Trees and forests
Main colour
Grey · lightness 51, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation. 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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