Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue

Paul Cézanne 1839–1906

Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue (1892) by Paul Cézanne. Its palette is led by slate (#475760, 25%) and grey (#777987, 19%), with accents of light reddish tan, soot, pale muted green and pale muted golden cream. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and cool.

Color note

Cézanne modelled form by shifting from warm to cool color rather than from light to dark, laying small, deliberate patches of color side by side.

Palette

#475760 MG 210 slate 25.0% of canvas
#777987 MG 215 grey 19.5% of canvas
#8194a8 MG 095 muted azure blue 19.4% of canvas
#aec4d2 MG 207 pale slate 10.8% of canvas
#b49483 MG 151 light reddish tan 9.5% of canvas
#0f1119 MG 223 soot 8.2% of canvas
#aac19a MG 053 pale muted green 4.7% of canvas
#e8d5ad MG 202 pale muted golden cream 2.8% of canvas

Color families

Blue 33%, Gray 33%, Brown 16%, Green 7%, Black 5%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.58
Contrast: 0.56
Vividness: 0.036
Warmth: -0.38
Complexity: 238 cells
Hue range: 0.88
Focus: 0.03

Composition

56% of the visual weight is in the right half, 56% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.82 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 19% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 33% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1892
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 73.0 × 92.0 cm
Genre: landscape painting
Collection: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

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