Madame Matisse, The Red Madras Headdress

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, US · 99.4 x 80.5 cm

Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Madame Matisse, The Red Madras Headdress by Henri Matisse

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
36.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
23.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
6.2
cool
Dominant Hue
#5C545E gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 339°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 36.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 23.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 36.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Madame Matisse, The Red Madras Headdress" (1907) reads as a shadowed, rich-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Slate. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #EBAA6C pulls the eye.

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