Pendennis Castle, Cornwall Scene after a Wreck

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Gleaming Sage
Gleaming Bright and polished - high-key, often warm, suggesting reflective or luminous surfaces.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Pendennis Castle, Cornwall Scene after a Wreck by J.M.W. Turner

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
75.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
22.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
10.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#C6B89B orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 87°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 75.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 22.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 75.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Pendennis Castle, Cornwall Scene after a Wreck" (1816) reads as a lit, mid-saturation warm palette built around Green and Amber. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #C07223 pulls the eye.

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