Luncheon of the Boating Party

Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841–1919

Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880s) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Its palette is led by light reddish tan (#cba28e, 19%) and pale slate (#c0b4b4, 15%), with accents of scarlet red, dark grey, ivory and muted green. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.

Color reading

Gray and brown cover nearly two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #A16858, takes up 16% of it.

Palette

#cba28e MG 151 light reddish tan 19.0% of canvas
#a16858 MG 016 scarlet red 16.1% of canvas
#c0b4b4 MG 207 pale slate 15.3% of canvas
#4c4540 MG 176 taupe 15.1% of canvas
#686f6b MG 216 dark grey 12.3% of canvas
#29353f MG 211 dark slate 12.0% of canvas
#f4ece4 MG 200 ivory 6.7% of canvas
#45603d MG 058 muted green 3.5% of canvas

Color families

Gray 32%, Brown 32%, Red 11%, White 7%, Blue 7%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.60
Contrast: 0.56
Vividness: 0.038
Warmth: +0.76
Complexity: 232 cells
Hue range: 0.64
Focus: 0.01

Composition

51% of the visual weight is in the right half, 51% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.61 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 3% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 36% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1880s
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 130.2 × 175.6 cm
Genre: genre art
Collection: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

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