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A work made of pen and reed pen and brown inks and graphite on cream wove paper.

Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

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Palette

Putty
 46% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Parchment
 36% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.9:1
Fawn
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Ash
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Mushroom
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1
Pale stone
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1

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
Dutch, 1853-1890
Date
1889
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and reed pen and brown inks and graphite on cream wove paper
Size
62.5 × 46.4 cm (24 5/8 × 18 5/16 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
19th century
Themes
Trees and forests
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 76, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton. 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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