Lucifer

National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria · 46.1 x 31 cm

Brooding Grotto
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Grotto Deep sea-cave blue-green - the color of water in a coastal grotto.
Lucifer by Franz Stuck

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
20.2
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
4.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-1.9
cool
Dominant Hue
#2D3131 black

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 203°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 20.2
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 4.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 20.2 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Lucifer" (1890) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Teal and Cool Grey. One color carries 53% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #4F4741 pulls the eye.

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