Le Ruisseau

Veiled Mellow
Veiled Partially obscured light - mid-dark with a hazy, scrim-filtered quality.
Mellow Soft warm yellow - gentle, low-chroma, the color of aged paper or afternoon light.
Le Ruisseau by Henri Matisse

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
45.8
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
10.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-0.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#6A6E5E gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 120°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 45.8
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 10.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 45.8 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Le Ruisseau" (1918) reads as a shadowed, whisper-saturation warm palette built around Cream and Sage. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #A9B0B3 pulls the eye.

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