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Painting of a red-haired, bearded man with light skin, painted in short brushstrokes and multicolored dots. The background is likewise a mass of small, closely spaced colored dots, these in green, blue, and red-orange.

Self-Portrait

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

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Palette

Graphite
 60% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1
Sepia
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1
Raw umber
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Cinnamon
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Fawn
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1

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
1887
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on artist's board, mounted on cradled panel
Size
41 × 32.5 cm (16 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.); Framed: 61.6 × 53.4 × 8.9 cm (24 1/4 × 21 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 33, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Winterbotham Collection. 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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