The Breakfast Table

Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, MA, US · 54 x 45.1 cm

Dusky Heather
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Heather Muted mauve - the color of Scottish heather, gray-purple and soft.
The Breakfast Table by John Singer Sargent

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
38.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
11.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
6.4
cool
Dominant Hue
#635756 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 26°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 38.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 11.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 38.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Breakfast Table" (1884) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Beige and Dusty Pink. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #B5B6D9 pulls the eye.

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