Wheat Field with Cypresses

Colors in this work

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 13/16 × 36 3/4 in. (73.2 × 93.4 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Olive Ground · Yellow family · #7B7137 · 22%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #75919D · 21%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #A9AF91 · 12%

Oxidized Bronze · Green family · #628477 · 9%

Pine Needle · Green family · #274130 · 8%

Lead Type · Gray family · #7C7D6C · 5%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #9E9155 · 5%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #525728 · 4%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #7087A3 · 4%

Press Black · Black family · #121B15 · 3%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #D3D3B6 · 3%

Marine Tempera · Blue family · #3F5E6C · 2%

Press Black · Black family · #0F0F1B · 1%

Clay Tablet · Brown family · #82604A · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #333C50 · <1%

Raw Ochre Field · Yellow family · #BE9F2B · <1%

Silverpoint Paper · Gray family · #C2CFE1 · <1%

Egyptian Blue Tile · Blue family · #2078B1 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1993

9 tags

Landscapes Both · 99%

The composition visibly depicts an expansive rural landscape, and the museum catalog lists “Landscapes” among the subjects.

Post-Impressionism Interpretive · 90%

The expressive swirling brushwork, heightened color, and emphasis on visible paint handling support a post-impressionist stylistic reading.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%

The palette prominently combines saturated blues and greens with vivid golden yellows and ochres, accented by dark cypress forms.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
Painting Both · 100%

The work is visibly a painted rectangular canvas, and the museum classifies it as a painting.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 99%

Distinct, energetic strokes are visible throughout the wheat, vegetation, hills, and sky, with marks changing direction to describe different parts of the landscape.
Impasto Visual · 96%

The image shows heavily built-up, ridged paint across the surface, particularly in the sky and foreground field, consistent with an impasto effect.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The museum dates the work to 1889, placing it within nineteenth-century art.

Dutch Art Metadata · 99%

The artist is identified in the catalog as Dutch, Vincent van Gogh, 1853–1890.

Vincent van Gogh. Wheat Field with Cypresses. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.