The Sick Child

National Gallery, Oslo, Norway · 120 x 1185 cm

Brooding Schist
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Schist Layered dark gray - the color of metamorphic schist rock, cool and mineral.
The Sick Child by Edvard Munch

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
30.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
8.2
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-1.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#454A43 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 134°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 30.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 8.2
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 30.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Sick Child" (1885) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Sage and Cool Grey. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #764F35 pulls the eye.

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