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Still Life with Teapot and Fruit

Still Life with Teapot and Fruit

Paul Gauguin · 1896

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Palette

Spruce
33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

Midnight
29% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.7:1

Duck egg
24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1

Slate blue
8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.9:1

Khaki
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

Lemon
2% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.5:1

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: Paul Gauguin
French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands
Date: 1896
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 18 3/4 x 26 in. (47.6 x 66 cm)
Period: 19th century
Themes: Still life
Main colour: Grey · lightness 40, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1903: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1974. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules