Robert Louis Stevenson

Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, US · 51 x 61.8 cm

Dusky Laterite
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Laterite Deep iron-red - the color of tropical laterite soil, oxidized and earthy.
Robert Louis Stevenson by John Singer Sargent

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
26.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
16.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
15.8
cool
Dominant Hue
#51372A orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 53°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 26.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 16.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 26.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Robert Louis Stevenson" (1887) reads as a deep, mid-saturation warm palette built around Red and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #B05E2F pulls the eye.

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