Siesta

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia · 109 x 132 cm

Dusky Sienna
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Sienna Warm red-brown earth - named after the Sienese pigment, a fundamental artist earth color.
Siesta by Pierre Bonnard

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
38.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
12.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
9.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#67584A orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 70°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 38.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 12.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 38.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Siesta" (1900) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Beige and Slate. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #E8D8AF pulls the eye.

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