A Eunuch's Dream

Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), Cleveland, OH, US · 39.3 x 65.4 cm

Brooding Schist
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Schist Layered dark gray - the color of metamorphic schist rock, cool and mineral.
A Eunuch's Dream by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
37.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
8.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-2.2
cool
Dominant Hue
#545A56 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 152°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 37.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 8.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 37.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"A Eunuch's Dream" (1874) reads as a shadowed, whisper-saturation balanced palette built around Cool Grey and Cream. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #653227 pulls the eye.

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