Prologue. Forest.

Bakhrushin Theater Museum, Moscow, Russia · 46.5 x 62 cm

Lustrous Slate
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Slate Blue-gray stone - the color of roofing slate, cool and slightly blue.
Prologue. Forest. by Nicholas Roerich

Color Palette

✦ Edit in generator

Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
49.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
34.1
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-22.4
cool
Dominant Hue
#307BAB blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 259°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 49.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 34.1
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 49.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Prologue. Forest." (1908) reads as a shadowed, vivid-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Teal. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches.

Example use cases

Subject Tags

Build a palette inspired by Prologue. Forest.
Open in generator with 10 colors pre-loaded

I Love This!

Use This Palette
Copy, export, or download for your project
Copy:
Download:
Share:

Artworks with a similar color profile

Nearest neighbours by brightness, saturation, warmth and hue across the full corpus.

More by Nicholas Roerich

More from Art Nouveau

← Browse all artworks