Katherine Lewis

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK · 88.3 x 72.4 cm

Nocturnal Basalt
Nocturnal Night-register palette - very low values, the world after dark.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Katherine Lewis by John Singer Sargent

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
15.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
6.1
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
2.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#282520 black

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 80°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 15.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 6.1
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 15.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Katherine Lewis" (1906) reads as a deep, whisper-saturation warm palette built around Slate and Warm Grey. One color carries 62% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #EACDAB pulls the eye.

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