Shadows

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France · 116 x 67 cm

Dusky Crepuscule
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Crepuscule Twilight purple-gray - the color of the sky in the minutes after sunset.
Shadows by Émile Friant

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
40.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
7.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
3.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#635D5A gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 48°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 40.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 7.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 40.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Shadows" (1891) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Mauve and Cream. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #D69474 pulls the eye.

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