Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US · 207.5 x 308 cm

Soft Gamboge
Soft Low-contrast, gentle chroma - mid-key values and low saturation, approachable and calm.
Gamboge Deep golden yellow - a traditional warm pigment, rich amber-gold.
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
48.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
20.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
1.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#727564 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 112°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 48.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 20.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 48.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (1884) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Sage and Yellow. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #A7B4BD pulls the eye.

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