Woman with a lute

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US · 51.4 x 45.7 cm

Dusky Sienna
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Sienna Warm red-brown earth - named after the Sienese pigment, a fundamental artist earth color.
Woman with a lute by Johannes Vermeer

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
32.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
8.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
6.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#554948 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 28°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 32.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 8.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 32.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Woman with a lute" (1662) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Beige and Warm Grey. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #ACABB5 pulls the eye.

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