Still Life with Apples, a Pear and a Ceramic Portrait Jug

Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, MA, US · 28.5 x 36.2 cm

Lustrous Heather
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Heather Muted mauve - the color of Scottish heather, gray-purple and soft.
Still Life with Apples, a Pear and a Ceramic Portrait Jug by Paul Gauguin

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
44.8
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
19.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
11.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#796562 red

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 36°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 44.8
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 19.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 44.8 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Still Life with Apples, a Pear and a Ceramic Portrait Jug" (1889) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation warm palette built around Amber and Slate. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #B2BECC pulls the eye.

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