Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US · 58 x 91 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.
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses by Paul Cezanne

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
48.4
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
16.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-8.9
cool
Dominant Hue
#607773 teal

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 179°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 48.4
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 16.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 48.4 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses" (1890) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Cool Grey and Slate. One color carries 34% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #A06029 pulls the eye.

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