Post-Impressionism · 1896
La Toilette
La Toilette (1896) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Its palette is led by umber (#6f5c3b, 19%) and oatmeal (#adaba0, 18%), with accents of cool grey, graphite, blue black and dark rich brown. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown and gray cover more than two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, pale gold #DBBF88, takes up 7% of it.
Palette
- #6f5c3b MG 184 umber 19.0% of canvas
- #adaba0 MG 172 oatmeal 18.1% of canvas
- #b39362 MG 033 light amber 17.2% of canvas
- #66797b MG 209 cool grey 16.2% of canvas
- #374442 MG 218 graphite 11.7% of canvas
- #dbbf88 MG 036 pale gold 7.4% of canvas
- #131f22 MG 221 blue black 6.3% of canvas
- #5a311b MG 160 dark rich brown 4.2% of canvas
Color families
Brown 44%, Gray 26%, Yellow 11%, Blue 7%, Black 4%
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Composition
53% of the visual weight is in the left half, 50% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.73 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 2% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 39% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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