Beech Forest in Switzerland

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.
Beech Forest in Switzerland by Ivan Shishkin

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
37.2
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
11.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-2.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#515A4F gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 134°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 37.2
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 11.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 37.2 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Beech Forest in Switzerland" (1863) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Sage and Cool Grey. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #5E5F24 pulls the eye.

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