Dutch Golden Age · 1664–1750 · Dutch
Rachel Ruysch
Across 3 works, the colors are mostly black (46%), brown (36%) and gray (12%). On average the canvases are dark, muted and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: soot, warm black, very dark reddish brown, very dark brown and graphite.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 223 soot 19.8% of canvas
- MG 220 warm black 10.8% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 8.8% of canvas
- MG 219 bistre 8.6% of canvas
- MG 218 graphite 7.7% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 6.4% of canvas
- MG 157 very dark reddish brown 4.8% of canvas
- MG 217 iron 3.3% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 3.1% of canvas
- MG 194 dark golden olive 2.8% of canvas
- MG 221 blue black 2.7% of canvas
- MG 170 very dark brown 2.3% of canvas
- MG 169 dark brown 2.0% of canvas
- MG 193 golden olive 1.2% of canvas
- MG 216 dark grey 1.1% of canvas
- MG 196 very dark olive 1.1% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 3 works: 56% of the visual weight in the left half, 58% in the lower half; symmetry 0.40; 44% calm space; half of the detail in 24% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.