Madame Pompadour

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US · 60.6 x 49.5 cm

Dusky Crepuscule
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Crepuscule Twilight purple-gray - the color of the sky in the minutes after sunset.
Madame Pompadour by Amedeo Modigliani

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
33.1
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
14.2
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
9.8
cool
Dominant Hue
#5A4A3F orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 63°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 33.1
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 14.2
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 33.1 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Madame Pompadour" (1914) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Cream and Mauve. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #EAE7DE pulls the eye.

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