A work made of reed pen and black-brown ink, with black chalk on off-white wove paper.

Weeping Tree

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

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Palette

Iron
31% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1

Taupe
21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1

Warm grey
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

Stone
13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1

Pale stone
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.0:1

Putty
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1

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: 1889
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Reed pen and black-brown ink, with black chalk on off-white wove paper
Size: 49.3 × 61.3 cm (19 7/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
Place: Netherlands
Period: 19th century
Themes: Trees and forests
Main colour: Brown · lightness 47, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake. 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