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Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

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Palette

Ash
 37% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Green earth
 21% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.6:1
Dark ochre
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Lamp black
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.6:1
Blue-grey
 10% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.5:1
Charcoal
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.3:1

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, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise
Date
1889
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
28 13/16 × 36 3/4 in. (73.2 × 93.4 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Work and rural life · Trees and forests
Main colour
Grey · lightness 47, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1993. 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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