Head of an Old Man

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France · 51 x 48 cm

Tenebrous Basalt
Tenebrous Dark and murky - low-key values with obscured form, Baroque in temperament.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Head of an Old Man by Paul Cezanne

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
20.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
9.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
5.2
cool
Dominant Hue
#362E2C black

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 46°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 20.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 9.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 20.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Head of an Old Man" (1866) reads as a deep, muted-saturation balanced palette built around Slate and Beige. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #B06536 pulls the eye.

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