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Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence.

Arlésiennes (Mistral)

Paul Gauguin · 1888

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Palette

Moss
 34% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.7:1
Putty
 30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Dark ochre
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1
Prussian blue
 12% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.0:1
Brick
 8% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.6:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

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
Paul Gauguin
Date
1888
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on jute canvas
Size
73 × 92 cm (28 3/4 × 36 3/16 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 116.6 × 8 cm (38 3/8 × 45 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Gardens
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 48, colourfulness 26

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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