Neoclassicism · 1787
Marie Antoinette and Her Children
Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787) by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Its palette is led by bistre (#231c12, 40%) and dark taupe (#4e3520, 28%), with accents of rich orange ochre and pale orange amber. Overall the canvas is dark, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown and black cover nearly nine-tenths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #95331B, takes up 8% of it.
Palette
- #231c12 MG 219 bistre 39.9% of canvas
- #4e3520 MG 177 dark taupe 27.9% of canvas
- #7a643e MG 178 rich orange ochre 12.0% of canvas
- #a88855 MG 182 golden umber 9.0% of canvas
- #95331b MG 019 scarlet red 8.5% of canvas
- #e0c89e MG 031 pale orange amber 2.6% of canvas
Color families
Brown 56%, Black 31%, Red 6%, Yellow 5%, Orange 2%
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Composition
60% of the visual weight is in the left half, 63% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.48 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 35% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 25% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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