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A work made of reed pen and iron-gall ink on tan laid paper.

Avenue of Pollard Birches and Poplars

Vincent van Gogh · March 1884

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Palette

Sepia
 39% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1
Coffee
 38% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.0:1
Tan
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Fawn
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1
Stone
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

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
March 1884
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Reed pen and iron-gall ink on tan laid paper
Size
19.2 × 26.5 cm (7 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
19th century
Themes
Trees and forests
Main colour
Brown · lightness 35, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray. 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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