Portrait of Jacques-Emile Blanche

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France

Soft Slate
Soft Low-contrast, gentle chroma - mid-key values and low saturation, approachable and calm.
Slate Blue-gray stone - the color of roofing slate, cool and slightly blue.
Portrait of Jacques-Emile Blanche by John Singer Sargent

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
45.2
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
12.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-0.4
cool
Dominant Hue
#686C5E gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 119°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 45.2
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 12.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 45.2 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Portrait of Jacques-Emile Blanche" (1886) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation balanced palette built around Sage and Cool Grey. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #E7D9B6 pulls the eye.

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