Post-Impressionism · 1869
Jeune Fille au piano (Girl at the Piano - The Overture to Tannhauser)
Jeune Fille au piano (Girl at the Piano - The Overture to Tannhauser) (1869) by Paul Cézanne. Its palette is led by blue black (#170f21, 33%) and stone (#6d5f58, 16%), with accents of pewter and very dark crimson. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, muted and warm.
Color note
Cézanne modelled form by shifting from warm to cool color rather than from light to dark, laying small, deliberate patches of color side by side.
Palette
- #170f21 MG 221 blue black 32.6% of canvas
- #6d5f58 MG 175 stone 16.0% of canvas
- #a29994 MG 214 pewter 14.7% of canvas
- #4b1726 MG 009 very dark crimson 14.7% of canvas
- #554744 MG 176 taupe 13.6% of canvas
- #dcd6ce MG 201 parchment 8.4% of canvas
Color families
Brown 36%, Black 30%, Gray 23%, White 4%, Red 4%
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Composition
53% of the visual weight is in the left half, 55% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.00 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 17% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 32% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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