Movement · 1790–1860

Romanticism

Color as emotion and weather: storms, fog, blazing sunsets. Cobalt blue and chrome yellow widen the bright end of the palette.

Across 32 works, the colors are mostly brown (46%), black (24%) and gray (18%). On average the canvases are mid-toned, muted and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: charcoal, muted azure blue, bistre, blue black and dark taupe.

Color print

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

• MG 222 charcoal 11.2% of canvas
• MG 219 bistre 7.4% of canvas
• MG 177 dark taupe 6.0% of canvas
• MG 223 soot 4.7% of canvas
• MG 221 blue black 4.2% of canvas
• MG 218 graphite 3.6% of canvas
• MG 176 taupe 3.4% of canvas
• MG 172 oatmeal 3.1% of canvas
• MG 173 putty 2.9% of canvas
• MG 211 dark slate 2.9% of canvas
• MG 175 stone 2.7% of canvas
• MG 213 light grey 2.6% of canvas
• MG 174 warm grey 2.3% of canvas
• MG 168 dark amber brown 2.3% of canvas
• MG 169 dark brown 2.2% of canvas
• MG 184 umber 2.1% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.46

Contrast

0.51

Vividness

0.029

Warmth

+0.77

Complexity

134 cells

Hue range

0.37

Focus

0.14

Artists

• Francisco Goya 1746–1828
• William Blake 1757–1827
• Caspar David Friedrich 1774–1840
• J. M. W. Turner 1775–1851
• John Constable 1776–1837
• Théodore Géricault 1791–1824
• Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863

Works

• Agony in the Garden, 18th century
• The Ancient of Days, 1794
• Newton, 1795
• Fishermen at Sea, 1796
• Charles IV of Spain and His Family, 1800
• Dolbadarn Castle, 1800
• La Maja nue, 1800
• The Clothed Maja, 1800
• The Monk by the Sea, 1808
• The Abbey in the Oakwood, c. 1809
• Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, 1812
• The Third of May 1808, 1814
• Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen, 1818
• Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818
• Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819
• The Ghost of a Flea, c. 1819
• The Raft of the Medusa, 1819
• The 1821 Derby at Epsom, 1821
• The Hay Wain, 1821
• The Barque of Dante, 1822
• Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, 1823
• The Battle of Trafalgar, c. 1823
• The Sea of Ice, c. 1823
• The Massacre at Chios, 1824
• Portrait of a Kleptomaniac, 1820s
• The Cornfield, 1826
• Death of Sardanapalus, 1827
• Liberty Leading the People, 1830
• The Fighting Temeraire, 1839
• The Slave Ship, 1840
• Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, 1842
• Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, 1843