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Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler) by Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

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Palette

Fawn
 64% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Raw umber
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1
Pale gold
 10% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.9:1
Saffron
 10% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.3:1
Copper
 3% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.6:1
Soot
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1

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
1887
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 60, colourfulness 30

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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