Portsmouth Dockyard

Tate Britain, London, UK · 38.1 x 54.6 cm

Dusky Lichen
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Lichen Muted gray-green - the color of lichen on stone, ancient and desaturated.
Portsmouth Dockyard by James Tissot

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
42.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
9.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
4.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#6A6359 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 81°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 42.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 9.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 42.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Portsmouth Dockyard" (1877) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Beige and Sage. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #9C492B pulls the eye.

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