Elegy

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Lustrous Tawny
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Tawny Warm orange-brown - a traditional term for the color of tanned leather or lion fur.
Elegy by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
43.7
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
16.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
14.4
cool
Dominant Hue
#7B6252 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 58°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 43.7
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 16.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 43.7 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Elegy" (1899) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation warm palette built around Amber and Beige. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #2A1C23 pulls the eye.

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