Rococo · 1738
Boy with a Spinning-Top
Boy with a Spinning-Top (1738) by Jean Siméon Chardin. Its palette is led by taupe (#4d4c3a, 48%) and stone (#706247, 21%), with accents of bone and putty. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown covers about four-fifths of the canvas. Even its most colorful tone, stone #706247, stays close to gray.
Palette
- #4d4c3a MG 176 taupe 47.7% of canvas
- #706247 MG 175 stone 20.5% of canvas
- #2d2c1f MG 219 bistre 20.2% of canvas
- #c3bdab MG 171 bone 7.1% of canvas
- #9b8f7a MG 173 putty 4.5% of canvas
Color families
Brown 80%, Gray 7%, Black 6%, Green 5%, White 1%
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Composition
59% of the visual weight is in the right half, 53% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.25 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 50% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 23% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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