Shores of Normandy

Musée Eugène Boudin, Honfleur, France · 59 x 73 cm

Veiled Sage
Veiled Partially obscured light - mid-dark with a hazy, scrim-filtered quality.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Shores of Normandy by Gustave Courbet

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
63.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
6.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-2.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#959A96 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 152°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 63.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 6.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 63.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Shores of Normandy" (1866) reads as a mid, whisper-saturation cool palette built around Cool Grey and Sage. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #352A20 pulls the eye.

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