Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US · 89 x 129.5 cm

Brooding Grotto
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Grotto Deep sea-cave blue-green - the color of water in a coastal grotto.
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
44.4
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
17.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-14.3
cool
Dominant Hue
#4A6F70 teal

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 201°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 44.4
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 17.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 44.4 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" (1878) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Teal and Cream. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #BEA791 pulls the eye.

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