The Chinese Nightingale

12.2 x 8.8 cm

Brooding Crepuscule
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Crepuscule Twilight purple-gray - the color of the sky in the minutes after sunset.
The Chinese Nightingale by Max Ernst

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
37.8
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
13.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
2.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#5C585F gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 317°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 37.8
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 13.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 37.8 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Chinese Nightingale" (1920) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Purple. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #D3D7D0 pulls the eye.

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