Realism · 1870
Barge Haulers on the Volga
Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870) by Ilya Repin. Its palette is led by silver (#d8d7e3, 33%) and light amber (#b48d4a, 15%), with accents of dark golden umber, rich orange ochre, pale slate and blue black. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown, yellow and white cover about three-quarters of the canvas. Its most vivid color, light orange amber #D0A761, takes up 12% of it.
Palette
- #d8d7e3 MG 206 silver 33.0% of canvas
- #b48d4a MG 033 light amber 15.3% of canvas
- #d0a761 MG 032 light orange amber 12.1% of canvas
- #574319 MG 185 dark golden umber 10.7% of canvas
- #b09f7f MG 181 light sand 9.7% of canvas
- #8d6b2f MG 178 rich orange ochre 8.4% of canvas
- #adb3c5 MG 207 pale slate 6.2% of canvas
- #1f131e MG 221 blue black 4.6% of canvas
Color families
Brown 31%, Yellow 28%, White 17%, Blue 16%, Gray 5%
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Composition
57% of the visual weight is in the left half, 70% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.57 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 40% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 22% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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