Romanticism · 1800
La Maja nue
La Maja nue (1800) by Francisco Goya. Its palette is led by bistre (#2f2b20, 55%) and umber (#6e5e44, 15%), with accents of pale sand. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, muted and warm.
Color reading
Brown and black cover more than four-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, pale sand #DABE8F, takes up just 4% of it.
Palette
- #2f2b20 MG 219 bistre 55.1% of canvas
- #6e5e44 MG 184 umber 15.2% of canvas
- #121d16 MG 221 blue black 14.3% of canvas
- #af9468 MG 033 light amber 11.2% of canvas
- #dabe8f MG 180 pale sand 4.1% of canvas
Color families
Brown 49%, Black 35%, Green 8%, Yellow 5%, Orange 2%
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Composition
57% of the visual weight is in the right half, 59% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.00 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 46% 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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