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Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse)

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

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Palette

Graphite
 41% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.6:1
Moss
 24% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.6:1
Emerald
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.2:1
Brick
 6% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.4:1
Walnut
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1
Putty
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1

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
Vincent van Gogh
Date
1889
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
92.7 × 73.8 cm (36 1/2 × 29 1/2 in.); Framed: 111.9 × 91.8 × 8.3 cm (44 1/16 × 36 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Flowers · Interiors · Mothers and children
Main colour
Green · lightness 34, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett 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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