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Painting in tones of gray and brown, with some green and blue, of a woman digging with a garden tool before a structure with a thatched roof that descends almost to the ground. Above her the sky is gray and blue, a haze of clouds.

A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage

Vincent van Gogh · c. 1885

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Palette

Pearl grey
 33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1
Stone
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Sepia
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1
Iron
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1
Mushroom
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

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
c. 1885
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
31.3 × 42 cm (12 5/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 62.6 × 10.8 cm (20 1/2 × 24 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Work and rural life
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 56, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland. 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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