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The Harvest of Buckwheat

The Harvest of Buckwheat

Paul Sérusier · 1899

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Palette

Coffee
65% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.9:1

Tan
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

Soot
10% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1

Olive brown
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

Chestnut
5% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.2:1

Raw umber
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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 Sérusier
Date: 1899
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 129.5 × 78.5 cm (51 × 30 7/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Flowers · Work and rural life
Main colour: Brown · lightness 25, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Lucia Woods Lindley. 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