The Laundress

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France · 49 x 33.5 cm

Dusky Basalt
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
The Laundress by Honore Daumier

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
33.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
8.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
3.3
cool
Dominant Hue
#524D48 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 75°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 33.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 8.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 33.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Laundress" (1863) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Slate and Beige. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #E1D7C2 pulls the eye.

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