Moonlight

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France · 27 x 41 cm

Dusky Tawny
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Tawny Warm orange-brown - a traditional term for the color of tanned leather or lion fur.
Moonlight by Felix Vallotton

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
33.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
11.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
7.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#574D40 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 77°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 33.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 11.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 33.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Moonlight" (1895) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Cream and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #EACA99 pulls the eye.

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