Ukiyo-e · 1797–1858 · Japanese
Hiroshige
Hiroshige used Prussian blue in skies and water so strikingly that the deep color became known in the West as “Hiroshige blue”.
Across 8 works, the colors are mostly brown (43%), gray (22%) and white (12%). On average the canvases are light, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: pale sand, light muted green, pale muted golden cream, scarlet red and parchment.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 180 pale sand 10.2% of canvas
- MG 171 bone 6.1% of canvas
- MG 172 oatmeal 6.1% of canvas
- MG 218 graphite 5.9% of canvas
- MG 202 pale muted golden cream 5.7% of canvas
- MG 217 iron 5.1% of canvas
- MG 201 parchment 4.6% of canvas
- MG 055 light muted green 3.8% of canvas
- MG 173 putty 3.7% of canvas
- MG 216 dark grey 3.6% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 2.8% of canvas
- MG 175 stone 2.7% of canvas
- MG 174 warm grey 2.5% of canvas
- MG 211 dark slate 2.4% of canvas
- MG 181 light sand 2.2% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 2.1% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 8 works: 51% of the visual weight in the right half, 51% in the lower half; symmetry 0.24; 23% calm space; half of the detail in 31% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.