Picking Flowers

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US · 54.3 x 65.2 cm

Brooding Lichen
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Lichen Muted gray-green - the color of lichen on stone, ancient and desaturated.
Picking Flowers by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
41.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
15.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-1.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#5C6352 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 121°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 41.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 15.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 41.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Picking Flowers" (1875) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation balanced palette built around Sage and Blue. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #949052 pulls the eye.

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