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Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace by Vincent van Gogh

Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace

Vincent van Gogh · 1885

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Palette

Dark olive
 39% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.0:1
Dark chocolate
 28% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.0:1
Bronze
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Burnt orange
 4% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.5:1
Cinnamon
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1
Tangerine
 1% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.8:1

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
1885
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
17 3/8 x 15 in. (44.1 x 38.1 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Work and rural life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 27, colourfulness 22

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Hays, 1984. 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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