Portrait of an Old Woman (Madame le Coeur)

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Sepulchral Crepuscule
Sepulchral Tomb-like darkness - cold, deep values associated with stillness and finality.
Crepuscule Twilight purple-gray - the color of the sky in the minutes after sunset.
Portrait of an Old Woman (Madame le Coeur) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
18.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
12.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
7.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#362730 black

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 345°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 18.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 12.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 18.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Portrait of an Old Woman (Madame le Coeur)" (1878) reads as a deep, mid-saturation cool palette built around Purple and Mauve. One color carries 31% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #D2A68D pulls the eye.

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