{"product_id":"viridian-green-pigment-430608269","title":"Viridian Green Pigment","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViridian is a transparent green pigment made from hydrated chromium oxide. It produces a cool, clear blue-green with a refined, jewel-like quality and excellent permanence. Compared with earth greens, malachite, or green verditer, Viridian is cleaner, cooler, and more transparent. Compared with emerald green, it is less brilliant but far more stable and much safer to use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a pigment, Viridian is valued for its transparency, strength, and exceptional usefulness in mixtures. In masstone it appears as a deep, cool green, while in thin layers it creates luminous blue-green glazes and delicate transparent washes. It mixes beautifully with yellows to create fresh landscape greens, with blues for deep turquoise and pine greens, with reds for muted neutrals, and with earth pigments for naturalistic foliage and shadow tones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eViridian is especially useful in watercolor, oil, acrylic, tempera, and glazing techniques. Its transparent character allows it to build color gradually without becoming heavy or chalky. It is one of the most important modern greens for landscape painting, botanical work, seascapes, atmospheric shadows, and cool color mixing. Its stability and clean handling made it one of the major replacements for more reactive historical copper and arsenic greens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViridian was developed in the 19th century as a stable hydrated chromium oxide green. Chromium chemistry had already produced several important pigments, including chrome yellow and chromium oxide green, but Viridian offered something different: a cool, transparent green with far greater permanence than many earlier bright greens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Viridian became widely available, artists often relied on greens such as verdigris, copper resinate, malachite, green verditer, terre verte, and emerald green. Some of these were beautiful but unstable, while others were dull, weak, or highly toxic. Viridian provided artists with a reliable transparent green that could be used for glazing, mixing, and direct painting without the same level of chemical risk as copper resinate or emerald green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the second half of the 19th century, Viridian had become an important color in European painting. It was especially valued by landscape painters and Impressionists, who used it for foliage, water, shadows, and broken color mixtures. Its cool blue-green tone made it useful for outdoor light effects and for mixing a wide range of natural greens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, Viridian remains one of the classic artist’s greens. Although modern phthalo greens are stronger and more intense, Viridian is still prized for its softer handling, transparency, permanence, and more naturalistic mixing behavior. It remains a standard pigment for artists who want a stable, historic, and refined green with excellent lightfastness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePigment Information\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePigment Type: Synthetic Inorganic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChemical Composition: Hydrated Chromium Oxide, Cr2O3·2H2O\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuitable Mediums: Watercolor, Oil, Tempera, Gouache, Acrylic, Casein\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLightfastness: Excellent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpacity: Transparent to Semi-transparent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther Names: Viridian Green, Transparent Oxide of Chromium, Hydrated Chromium Oxide Green, Guignet’s Green, Vert Émeraude\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColor Index Code: PG18\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePictured Artwork: Landscape With Couple Walking and Crescent Moon by Vincent van Gogh from the São Paulo Museum of Art\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morrow Archival","offers":[{"title":"2 Grams","offer_id":48288841892062,"sku":"PS-610-0000-0002g","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10 Grams","offer_id":48288841924830,"sku":"PS-610-0000-0010g","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20 Grams","offer_id":48288841957598,"sku":"PS-665-0000-0020g","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Grams","offer_id":48288841990366,"sku":"PS-610-0000-0050g","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100 Grams","offer_id":48288842023134,"sku":"PS-610-0000-0100g","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500 Grams","offer_id":48288842055902,"sku":"PS-642-0000-0500g","price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/2821\/2702\/files\/35032a0c-f74f-4788-9779-39dcaaabb1f4-copy.jpg?v=1780026632","url":"https:\/\/morrowarchival.com\/products\/viridian-green-pigment-430608269","provider":"Morrow Archival","version":"1.0","type":"link"}