Pintails Decoyed

Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA, US

Soft Sage
Soft Low-contrast, gentle chroma - mid-key values and low saturation, approachable and calm.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Pintails Decoyed by Frank W. Benson

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
45.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
9.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
2.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#6D6C5C gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 104°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 45.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 9.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 45.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Pintails Decoyed" (1921) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Sage and Cream. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #D6CA9F pulls the eye.

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