Water Lilies

Abramtsevo Colony, Sergiyev Posad, Russia

Veiled Sage
Veiled Partially obscured light - mid-dark with a hazy, scrim-filtered quality.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Water Lilies by Mikhail Vrubel

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
45.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
11.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-1.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#676D68 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 142°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 45.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 11.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 45.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Water Lilies" (1895) reads as a shadowed, whisper-saturation balanced palette built around Sage and Slate. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #949761 pulls the eye.

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