Portrait of Louis Roy

Private Collection

Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Portrait of Louis Roy by Paul Gauguin

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
30.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
16.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
7.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#514643 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 39°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 30.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 16.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 30.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Portrait of Louis Roy" (1893) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation balanced palette built around Slate and Amber. One color carries 33% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #BA9153 pulls the eye.

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