The ham

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK

Lustrous Sienna
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Sienna Warm red-brown earth - named after the Sienese pigment, a fundamental artist earth color.
The ham by Edouard Manet

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
48.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
24.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
18.9
cool
Dominant Hue
#8C6D53 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 66°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 48.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 24.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 48.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The ham" (1880) reads as a shadowed, rich-saturation warm palette built around Red and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #E0C76F pulls the eye.

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