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A work made of pen and brown ink, with touches of pen and black ink, graphite and graphite frottage, and traces of black chalk, on grayish-white paper laid down on cardboard.

Tetards (Pollards)

Vincent van Gogh · 1884

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Palette

Oyster
 44% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Stone
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Taupe
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Sepia
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1
Pale stone
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.3:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

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
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890
Date
1884
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with touches of pen and black ink, graphite and graphite frottage, and traces of black chalk, on grayish-white paper laid down on cardboard
Size
33.7 × 43.8 cm (13 5/16 × 17 1/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Allerton Fund. 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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