Rococo · 1770
A Young Girl Reading
A Young Girl Reading (1770) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Its palette is led by dark amber brown (#503f31, 39%) and reddish brown (#714c33, 18%), with accents of light amber gold and light grey. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown covers about four-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, light amber gold #D6B35D, takes up 7% of it.
Palette
- #503f31 MG 168 dark amber brown 38.7% of canvas
- #714c33 MG 154 reddish brown 18.1% of canvas
- #87633a MG 178 rich orange ochre 16.3% of canvas
- #9d7d4e MG 034 amber 13.3% of canvas
- #d6b35d MG 037 light amber gold 7.3% of canvas
- #b9b6b0 MG 213 light grey 6.3% of canvas
Color families
Brown 79%, Yellow 13%, Gray 4%, White 1%, Red 1%
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Composition
53% of the visual weight is in the right half, 62% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.39 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 39% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 28% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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