Mrs. John William Crombie (Minna Watson)

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK · 96.5 x 73.6 cm

Sepulchral Basalt
Sepulchral Tomb-like darkness - cold, deep values associated with stillness and finality.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Mrs. John William Crombie (Minna Watson) by John Singer Sargent

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
17.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
6.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-0.4
cool
Dominant Hue
#28282F black

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 293°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 17.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 6.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 17.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Mrs. John William Crombie (Minna Watson)" (1898) reads as a deep, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Beige. One color carries 62% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #E7AD8B pulls the eye.

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