The Ball

Lustrous Slate
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Slate Blue-gray stone - the color of roofing slate, cool and slightly blue.
The Ball by James Tissot

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
44.4
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
30.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
22.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#84614B orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 58°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 44.4
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 30.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 44.4 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Ball" (1880) reads as a shadowed, rich-saturation warm palette built around Amber and Blue. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #EB993D pulls the eye.

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