Crete

Lustrous Sage
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Crete by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
60.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
14.2
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-5.4
cool
Dominant Hue
#859587 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 145°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 60.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 14.2
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 60.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Crete" (1897) reads as a mid, mid-saturation balanced palette built around Sage and Green. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #6892B8 pulls the eye.

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