The Pretty Housewife

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, US

Smoldering Laterite
Smoldering Suppressed heat in dark register - low-key with a warm undertone, ember-like.
Laterite Deep iron-red - the color of tropical laterite soil, oxidized and earthy.
The Pretty Housewife by Amedeo Modigliani

Color Palette

✦ Edit in generator

Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
19.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
18.1
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
16.9
cool
Dominant Hue
#412617 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 54°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 19.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 18.1
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 19.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Pretty Housewife" (1915) reads as a deep, vivid-saturation warm palette built around Red and Amber. One color carries 32% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #C09964 pulls the eye.

Example use cases

Subject Tags

Build a palette inspired by The Pretty Housewife
Open in generator with 10 colors pre-loaded

I Love This!

Use This Palette
Copy, export, or download for your project
Copy:
Download:
Share:

Artworks with a similar color profile

Nearest neighbours by brightness, saturation, warmth and hue across the full corpus.

More by Amedeo Modigliani

More from Expressionism

← Browse all artworks