Dutch Golden Age · 1661
Mother Lacing Her Bodice beside a Cradle
Mother Lacing Her Bodice beside a Cradle (1661) by Pieter de Hooch. Its palette is led by soot (#100f12, 56%) and dark amber brown (#523c29, 27%), with accents of light grey, dark grey and ivory. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and warm.
Color reading
Black and brown cover about nine-tenths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, rich scarlet brown #83552F, takes up 7% of it.
Palette
- #100f12 MG 223 soot 56.4% of canvas
- #523c29 MG 168 dark amber brown 26.8% of canvas
- #83552f MG 161 rich scarlet brown 7.0% of canvas
- #b2a7ad MG 213 light grey 3.1% of canvas
- #a0754d MG 030 orange 3.0% of canvas
- #706567 MG 216 dark grey 2.3% of canvas
- #eaeee9 MG 200 ivory 1.4% of canvas
Color families
Black 59%, Brown 31%, Gray 6%, White 1%, Red 1%
Measurements
Composition
57% of the visual weight is in the right half, 51% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.45 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 31% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 27% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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