Baroque · 1593–1652 · French
Georges de La Tour
Across 3 works, the colors are mostly black (50%), brown (21%) and blue (16%). On average the canvases are dark, muted and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: very dark muted blue, soot, dark muted azure blue, very dark blue and dark muted blue.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 223 soot 27.9% of canvas
- MG 219 bistre 9.1% of canvas
- MG 221 blue black 8.2% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 8.1% of canvas
- MG 100 very dark muted blue 8.0% of canvas
- MG 218 graphite 6.7% of canvas
- MG 098 dark muted azure blue 4.9% of canvas
- MG 099 dark muted blue 3.4% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 2.2% of canvas
- MG 211 dark slate 2.2% of canvas
- MG 108 very dark blue 1.9% of canvas
- MG 220 warm black 1.7% of canvas
- MG 156 dark reddish brown 1.6% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 1.4% of canvas
- MG 193 golden olive 1.0% of canvas
- MG 155 dark reddish brown 0.9% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 3 works: 52% of the visual weight in the right half, 52% in the upper half; symmetry 0.31; 55% calm space; half of the detail in 20% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.