Portrait of Mary Cassatt

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA

Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Portrait of Mary Cassatt by Edgar Degas

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
39.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
15.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
7.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#68595E gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 359°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 39.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 15.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 39.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Portrait of Mary Cassatt" (1880) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation balanced palette built around Slate and Amber. One color carries 36% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #AFA19A pulls the eye.

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