Young Mother Gazing At Her Child

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US · 102.9 x 142.2 cm

Sepulchral Schist
Sepulchral Tomb-like darkness - cold, deep values associated with stillness and finality.
Schist Layered dark gray - the color of metamorphic schist rock, cool and mineral.
Young Mother Gazing At Her Child by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
22.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
10.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
0.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#343633 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 112°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 22.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 10.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 22.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Young Mother Gazing At Her Child" (1871) reads as a deep, mid-saturation cool palette built around Cool Grey and Blue. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #864831 pulls the eye.

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