Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace

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Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1885
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 17 3/8 x 15 in. (44.1 x 38.1 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Olive Ground · Yellow family · #3E311D · 30%

Charred Umber · Black family · #241515 · 13%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #977329 · 12%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #614F23 · 11%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #70622B · 11%

Charred Umber · Black family · #241811 · 9%

Pine Needle · Green family · #3A432D · 4%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #7F5A0E · 2%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #563C0F · 2%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #E49E4E · 2%

Molten Copper · Orange family · #D06715 · 2%

Lampblack · Black family · #0F070F · 1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #A1430A · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #080200 · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #2F4136 · <1%

Granite Face · Gray family · #877969 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #A57873 · <1%

Oxidized Bronze · Green family · #607F71 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Hays, 1984

10 tags

Work and Workers Both · 98%

The title identifies cooking as the subject, and the image shows a figure engaged in a domestic cooking task beside a hearth.
The Domestic and Domesticity Both · 98%

The work presents a domestic activity within a plainly furnished interior, with a hearth, vessels, and household implements visible around the figure.
Interiors Visual · 98%

The scene is clearly set inside a modest room, with a hearth or cooking area at left and a rough floor extending across the foreground.
Food Metadata · 92%

Food is listed among the museum's subject terms, and the image depicts cooking vessels and a cooking activity.

Dark Colors Visual · 99%

Deep browns, near-black tones, muted greens, and blue-greens dominate the composition, with localized ocher and yellow accents.

Painting Metadata · 100%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art classifies the work as a painting.
Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog explicitly identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 97%

Broad, directional brushstrokes remain visibly distinct across the figure, wall, hearth, floor, and vessels.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The catalog dates the work to 1885, placing it within nineteenth-century art.

Dutch Art Metadata · 100%

The artist display identifies Vincent van Gogh as Dutch.

Vincent van Gogh. Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.