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A work made of oil on canvas, mounted on pressboard.

Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre

Vincent van Gogh · Early 1887

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Palette

Pale blue-grey
 51% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1
Ash
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Smoke
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Green earth
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.0:1
Warm grey
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Early 1887
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas, mounted on pressboard
Size
43.6 × 33 cm (17 1/8 × 13 in.); Framed: 61 × 50.8 × 7 cm (24 × 20 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place
Paris
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Cities and streets
Main colour
Grey · lightness 63, colourfulness 7

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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