Salome

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, US

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.
Salome by Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
31.1
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
30.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
2.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#3F476A blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 302°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 31.1
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 30.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 31.1 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Salome" (1900) reads as a shadowed, rich-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Yellow. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #AE8A27 pulls the eye.

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