Dutch Golden Age · 1716
Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Slab
Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Slab (1716) by Rachel Ruysch. Its palette is led by soot (#181612, 81%) and taupe (#504c3b, 9%), with accents of light sand. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and warm.
Color reading
Black covers about three-quarters of the canvas. Its most vivid color, rich sienna #833724, takes up just 3% of it.
Palette
- #181612 MG 223 soot 80.5% of canvas
- #504c3b MG 176 taupe 9.3% of canvas
- #7c6c57 MG 183 golden umber 5.2% of canvas
- #833724 MG 147 rich sienna 3.0% of canvas
- #b3a58e MG 181 light sand 1.8% of canvas
Color families
Black 74%, Brown 21%, Red 2%, Green 2%, Gray 1%
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Composition
55% of the visual weight is in the left half, 61% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.52 (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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