Te Faruru (They are Making Love Here)

Paul Gauguin · 1894/1895

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Palette

Caramel
61% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

Biscuit
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.6:1

Copper
12% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.2:1

Tan
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Sepia
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1

Poppy
3% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.7:1

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

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
1848–1903
Date: 1894/1895
Type: Print
Medium: color woodcut
Size: image: 35.8 x 20.5 cm (14 1/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
Place: French
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 53, colourfulness 36

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1903: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1974. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Te Faruru (They are Making Love Here)

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