Baroque · 1598–1664 · Spanish
Francisco de Zurbarán
Across 3 works, the colors are mostly brown (51%), black (46%) and yellow (3%). On average the canvases are dark, muted and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: bistre, dark taupe, dark umber, dark brown and charcoal.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 219 bistre 22.1% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 18.6% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 15.3% of canvas
- MG 221 blue black 5.8% of canvas
- MG 169 dark brown 5.5% of canvas
- MG 223 soot 5.4% of canvas
- MG 186 dark umber 5.1% of canvas
- MG 185 dark golden umber 3.8% of canvas
- MG 184 umber 2.7% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 2.2% of canvas
- MG 182 golden umber 2.1% of canvas
- MG 183 golden umber 1.9% of canvas
- MG 168 dark amber brown 1.8% of canvas
- MG 181 light sand 1.4% of canvas
- MG 195 dark olive 1.3% of canvas
- MG 033 light amber 1.1% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 3 works: 55% of the visual weight in the right half, 58% in the upper half; symmetry 0.48; 57% calm space; half of the detail in 23% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.