Neoclassicism · 1741–1807 · Swiss
Angelica Kauffman
Across 3 works, the colors are mostly brown (61%), black (22%) and gray (7%). On average the canvases are mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: very dark brown, very dark reddish brown, warm black, very dark umber and dark brown.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 219 bistre 11.3% of canvas
- MG 220 warm black 11.1% of canvas
- MG 170 very dark brown 6.5% of canvas
- MG 169 dark brown 6.3% of canvas
- MG 157 very dark reddish brown 6.1% of canvas
- MG 186 dark umber 4.2% of canvas
- MG 156 dark reddish brown 3.9% of canvas
- MG 173 putty 3.9% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 3.4% of canvas
- MG 185 dark golden umber 3.3% of canvas
- MG 168 dark amber brown 3.1% of canvas
- MG 214 pewter 3.0% of canvas
- MG 187 very dark umber 2.6% of canvas
- MG 174 warm grey 2.1% of canvas
- MG 223 soot 2.1% of canvas
- MG 215 grey 2.0% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 3 works: 53% of the visual weight in the left half, 55% in the upper half; symmetry 0.43; 27% calm space; half of the detail in 29% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.