Realism · 1844–1916 · American
Thomas Eakins
Across 3 works, the colors are mostly brown (51%), black (39%) and gray (4%). On average the canvases are dark, muted and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: very dark olive, dark olive, soot, dark reddish brown and very dark reddish brown.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 223 soot 13.9% of canvas
- MG 219 bistre 11.2% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 9.6% of canvas
- MG 196 very dark olive 7.0% of canvas
- MG 156 dark reddish brown 5.6% of canvas
- MG 195 dark olive 5.6% of canvas
- MG 221 blue black 4.7% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 3.5% of canvas
- MG 157 very dark reddish brown 3.2% of canvas
- MG 220 warm black 2.4% of canvas
- MG 194 dark golden olive 2.2% of canvas
- MG 185 dark golden umber 2.1% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 2.0% of canvas
- MG 146 very dark sienna 1.9% of canvas
- MG 148 dark rich sienna 1.7% of canvas
- MG 184 umber 1.6% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 3 works: 54% of the visual weight in the right half, 60% in the lower half; symmetry 0.21; 41% calm space; half of the detail in 26% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.
Works
- The Gross Clinic, 1875
- The Chess Players, 1876
- Swimming, 1885