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A work made of black and white chalk, with brush and stumping, brush and black and gray wash, and traces of graphite, over a brush and brown ink underdrawing on ivory wove paper.

Weeping Woman

Vincent van Gogh · 1883

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Palette

Iron
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1
Slate
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Smoke
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1
Warm grey
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Putty
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Stone
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

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
1883
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black and white chalk, with brush and stumping, brush and black and gray wash, and traces of graphite, over a brush and brown ink underdrawing on ivory wove paper
Size
50.2 × 31.4 cm (19 13/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 45, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. G. T. Langhorne and the Mary Kirk Waller Fund in memory of Tiffany Blake and Anonymous 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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