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A work made of charcoal, reed pen and black ink, blue pastel, and white chalk on blue-gray laid paper.

Cottages with a Woman Working in the Middle Ground

Vincent van Gogh · 1890

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Palette

Lichen
 30% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.1:1
Celadon
 28% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.0:1
Green earth
 23% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.2:1
Taupe
 14% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.3:1
Duck egg
 3% of the image
Teal · text contrast 8.3:1
Parchment
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.1:1

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
1890
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Charcoal, reed pen and black ink, blue pastel, and white chalk on blue-gray laid paper
Size
47 × 62.1 cm (18 9/16 × 24 7/16 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
19th century
Main colour
Green · lightness 63, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Kate L. Brewster. 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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