A Farm in Brittany

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Date: ca. 1894
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 1/2 x 35 5/8 in. (72.4 x 90.5 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Pine Needle · Green family · #424E32 · 27%

Roman Brick Earth · Brown family · #734941 · 13%

Weathered Leather · Brown family · #745641 · 9%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #655437 · 9%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #CEB59A · 9%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #A18D73 · 9%

Laurel Cloth · Green family · #61673C · 6%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #83743D · 6%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #293C37 · 4%

Slate Night · Black family · #252D21 · 2%

Slate Night · Black family · #2D2C37 · 2%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #6F6516 · 1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #A15125 · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #040200 · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #A9AF9D · <1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #9AA7B2 · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #99B3AB · <1%

Wheat Straw · Yellow family · #CCAB4B · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Bequest of Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, in memory of her husband, Sam A. Lewisohn, 1954

7 tags

Rural Life Both · 99%

The image shows farm buildings, cultivated fields, and a rural settlement; the Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog lists the subject as “Farms” and titles the work A Farm in Brittany.
Landscapes Both · 99%

The composition is an outdoor view dominated by fields, trees, sky, and distant buildings, corresponding to the cataloged farm subject and the landscape format of the image.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 92%

The image uses strongly intensified pink-red fields, saturated greens, ocher-yellow trees, and blue-violet atmospheric passages.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 92%

Broad, visible strokes structure the sky, foliage, fields, roofs, and foreground, with loose and layered handling rather than uniformly smooth modeling.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the painting to circa 1894, placing it in the nineteenth century.

French Art Metadata · 92%

The catalog’s artist display identifies Paul Gauguin as French; the work is also titled as a view in Brittany.

Paul Gauguin. A Farm in Brittany. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.