chrome yellow

English

Noun

chrome yellow (countable and uncountable, plural chrome yellows)

  1. A natural yellow pigment derived from lead(II) chromate.
    Synonym: Leipzig yellow
    chrome yellow:  
    Vincent van Gogh used chrome yellow in many of his paintings.
    • 2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 15:
      These dully schematic yet sentimental misfortunes surround Van Gogh's “Sower”. He ploughs on, figure accentuated in deep impasto, across a field cast in blue shadow, chrome yellow corn merging with the sun.

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