Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the Black Chateau

Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan · 65.6 x 81 cm

Brooding Schist
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Schist Layered dark gray - the color of metamorphic schist rock, cool and mineral.
Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the Black Chateau by Paul Cezanne

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
40.8
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
13.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-5.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#556363 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 204°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 40.8
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 13.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 40.8 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the Black Chateau" (1905) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Cool Grey and Sage. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #AF7945 pulls the eye.

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