Calm Sea

45 x 58 cm

Silvery Slate
Silvery Cool metallic sheen - mid-to-high key, desaturated, with a gray-blue cast.
Slate Blue-gray stone - the color of roofing slate, cool and slightly blue.
Calm Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
71.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
12.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-3.4
cool
Dominant Hue
#A7B0B2 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 221°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 71.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 12.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 71.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Calm Sea" (1863) reads as a lit, mid-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Dusty Pink. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #EBCAB6 pulls the eye.

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