Movement · 1865–1895

Impressionism

Light over line. Shadows turn blue and violet, black nearly disappears, and pure color is laid side by side on pale grounds.

Across 44 works, the colors are mostly brown (44%), gray (21%) and black (10%). On average the canvases are light, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: yellow, pale grey, oatmeal, putty and light grey.

Color print

The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.

• MG 172 oatmeal 5.2% of canvas
• MG 173 putty 4.8% of canvas
• MG 222 charcoal 4.7% of canvas
• MG 213 light grey 4.2% of canvas
• MG 174 warm grey 4.1% of canvas
• MG 171 bone 3.9% of canvas
• MG 212 pale grey 3.9% of canvas
• MG 216 dark grey 3.6% of canvas
• MG 175 stone 3.4% of canvas
• MG 219 bistre 3.2% of canvas
• MG 214 pewter 3.2% of canvas
• MG 215 grey 3.1% of canvas
• MG 176 taupe 3.0% of canvas
• MG 221 blue black 2.9% of canvas
• MG 177 dark taupe 2.7% of canvas
• MG 223 soot 2.5% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.55

Contrast

0.46

Vividness

0.036

Warmth

+0.55

Complexity

159 cells

Hue range

0.48

Focus

0.04

Composition

Averaged over 44 works: 50% of the visual weight in the left half, 56% in the lower half; symmetry 0.36; 24% calm space; half of the detail in 32% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.

Artists

• Camille Pissarro 1830–1903
• Édouard Manet 1832–1883
• Edgar Degas 1834–1917
• Alfred Sisley 1839–1899
• Claude Monet 1840–1926
• Berthe Morisot 1841–1895
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841–1919
• Mary Cassatt 1844–1926
• Gustave Caillebotte 1848–1894

Works

• The Bellelli Family, 1858
• Music in the Tuileries, 1862
• Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
• Olympia, 1863
• Luncheon on the Grass, 1866
• Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
• Regatta at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
• Woman in the Garden, 1867
• Interior, 1868
• The Balcony, 1868
• La Grenouillère, 1869
• The Ballet Class, 1871
• Impression, Sunrise, 1872
• The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872
• The Cradle, 1872
• In a Park, 1874
• L'Absinthe, 1875
• Les raboteurs de parquet, 1875
• The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand, 1875
• Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875
• Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876
• Flooding at Port-Marly, 1876
• Madame Monet wearing a kimono, 1876
• The Psyche mirror, 1876
• Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
• The Red Roofs, Côte Saint-Denis at Pontoise, Winter Effect, 1877
• Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878
• Vue de toits, 1878
• Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, 1879
• Summer's Day, 1879
• Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, 1879
• The Umbrellas, c. 1881
• A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882
• The Great Bathers, 1884
• Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880s
• The Cup of Tea, 1880s
• Girls at the Piano, 1892
• Rouen Cathedral, 1892
• The Child's Bath, 1893
• Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen, 1896
• Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather, 1896
• Steamboats in the Port of Rouen, 1896
• Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899
• Water Lilies, 1919