Old Women of Arles, from the Volpini Suite
Paul Gauguin · 1889, printed after 1911
Palette
Parchment
Chalk
Sepia
Taupe
Putty
Fawn
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
published by Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939) - Date
- 1889, printed after 1911
- Type
- Medium
- Zincograph in black on ivory wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)
- Size
- Image: 19.4 × 21 cm (7 11/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 47.1 cm (12 11/16 × 18 9/16 in.)
- Place
- France
- Period
- 19th century
- Main colour
- White & cream · lightness 83, colourfulness 18
Art Institute of Chicago, William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment. Museum record.
Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0.
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