The Good Shepherd

Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University), New Brunswick, NJ, 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.
The Good Shepherd by Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
37.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
10.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-1.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#545664 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 287°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 37.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 10.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 37.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Good Shepherd" (1903) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Blue. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #9A9BCE pulls the eye.

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