Sunflowers

Colors in this work

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1887
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 17 x 24 in. (43.2 x 61 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Olive Ground · Yellow family · #856E3B · 33%

Marine Tempera · Blue family · #396E80 · 29%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #243D58 · 11%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #AF9A5F · 6%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #5E4425 · 5%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #46301F · 5%

Duck Egg Slip · Teal family · #6B9CAA · 4%

Laurel Cloth · Green family · #5D7058 · 1%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #C7C38E · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #1B3C46 · <1%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #B58606 · <1%

Press Black · Black family · #10110B · <1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #5F5B50 · <1%

Lead Blue Veil · Blue family · #577A97 · <1%

Roman Brick Earth · Brown family · #71433F · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #0A0A0D · <1%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #9EB0C4 · <1%

Egyptian Blue Tile · Blue family · #0086B4 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1949

9 tags

Still Life Both · 100%

The museum metadata identifies the work as a still life, and the image visibly depicts cut sunflowers arranged as the central subject.
Flora Both · 100%

Sunflowers are listed as the cataloged subject, and multiple sunflower heads, petals, leaves, and stems are directly visible.

Post-Impressionism Interpretive · 83%

The emphatic brushwork, heightened color contrasts, and animated surface support a cautious visual reading of the work as Post-Impressionist, although the supplied museum metadata does not specify a style.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 88%

Saturated blue and golden-yellow passages dominate the composition, with vivid ocher, orange, green, and reddish-brown accents.
Dense Composition Visual · 96%

The overlapping flowers, leaves, stems, and brushstrokes create a crowded mass occupying nearly the entire horizontal canvas.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The museum records the medium as oil on canvas.
Impasto Visual · 98%

The high-resolution image shows visibly raised, heavily worked paint across the flower heads, petals, leaves, and blue ground, producing a strongly tactile surface.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 97%

Vigorous, clearly visible strokes curve, slash, radiate, and overlap throughout the bouquet and background rather than forming smoothly blended passages.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The work is dated 1887, placing it within the nineteenth century.

Vincent van Gogh. Sunflowers. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.