Northern Renaissance · 1460
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of a Lady (1460) by Rogier van der Weyden. Its palette is led by putty (#a4987f, 33%) and very dark muted blue (#0e242f, 25%), with accents of stone and dark red. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, muted and warm.
Color reading
Brown and black cover more than four-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, dark red #8F2720, takes up just 2% of it.
Palette
- #a4987f MG 173 putty 33.1% of canvas
- #0e242f MG 100 very dark muted blue 24.9% of canvas
- #201916 MG 157 very dark reddish brown 22.8% of canvas
- #cfb9a4 MG 163 pale tan 9.9% of canvas
- #74654e MG 175 stone 7.4% of canvas
- #8f2720 MG 020 dark red 1.8% of canvas
Color families
Brown 52%, Black 31%, Blue 12%, Gray 2%, Red 1%
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Composition
53% of the visual weight is in the left half, 57% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.44 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 47% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 24% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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