Portrait of Monsieur Brun

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan

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 Monsieur Brun by Edouard Manet

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
32.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
9.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
1.2
cool
Dominant Hue
#4E4C4E gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 346°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 32.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 9.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 32.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Portrait of Monsieur Brun" (1879) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Warm Grey and Blue. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #C5B09D pulls the eye.

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