The Toilet of Venus

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia · 108 x 85 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 Toilet of Venus by Francois Boucher

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
35.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
13.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
1.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#55554D gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 100°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 35.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 13.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 35.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Toilet of Venus" (1751) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation balanced palette built around Cool Grey and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #693026 pulls the eye.

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