Neoclassicism · 1783
Marie Antoinette with a Rose
Marie Antoinette with a Rose (1783) by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Its palette is led by soot (#141314, 45%) and charcoal (#252926, 21%), with accents of dark muted azure teal, light muted blue and silver. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and cool.
Color reading
Black and gray cover nearly four-fifths of the canvas. Even its most colorful tone, dark muted azure teal #254F5B, stays close to gray.
Palette
- #141314 MG 223 soot 44.8% of canvas
- #252926 MG 222 charcoal 20.7% of canvas
- #254f5b MG 084 dark muted azure teal 11.3% of canvas
- #626c5d MG 175 stone 11.3% of canvas
- #95a6b1 MG 094 light muted blue 8.4% of canvas
- #e1d9d8 MG 206 silver 3.5% of canvas
Color families
Black 57%, Gray 21%, Blue 8%, Brown 7%, Green 4%
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Composition
56% of the visual weight is in the left half, 51% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.43 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 39% 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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