The Birth of Venus

Musée Grobet-Labadié, Marseille, France

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.
The Birth of Venus by Jean-Honore Fragonard

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
55.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
17.1
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
11.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#95816C orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 73°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 55.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 17.1
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 55.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Birth of Venus" (1753) reads as a mid, mid-saturation warm palette built around Amber and Cream. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #EECFBB pulls the eye.

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