Venetian Onion Seller

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain · 94.3 x 69.8 cm

Dusky Crepuscule
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Crepuscule Twilight purple-gray - the color of the sky in the minutes after sunset.
Venetian Onion Seller by John Singer Sargent

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
33.1
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
12.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
9.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#5A4A3F orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 62°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 33.1
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 12.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 33.1 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Venetian Onion Seller" (1880) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation warm palette built around Mauve and Warm Grey. One color carries 30% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #F4E3AF pulls the eye.

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