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Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh

Sunflowers

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

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Palette

Steel blue
 40% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.4:1
Khaki
 31% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Raw umber
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1
Prussian blue
 6% of the image
Blue · text contrast 13.1:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Charcoal
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.7:1

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, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise
Date
1887
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
17 x 24 in. (43.2 x 61 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Flowers · Still life
Main colour
Blue · lightness 42, colourfulness 22

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1949. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1890: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1961. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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