Post-Impressionism · 19th century
The Boy in the Red Vest
The Boy in the Red Vest (19th century) by Paul Cézanne. Its palette is led by very dark muted blue (#1a1f2a, 21%) and pewter (#849298, 20%), with accents of pale grey, stone, ivory and scarlet red. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, muted and balanced between warm 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
- #1a1f2a MG 100 very dark muted blue 21.3% of canvas
- #849298 MG 214 pewter 20.3% of canvas
- #3a4b5b MG 098 dark muted azure blue 15.3% of canvas
- #2a3441 MG 211 dark slate 15.3% of canvas
- #c6c5bc MG 212 pale grey 10.9% of canvas
- #6f6755 MG 175 stone 9.4% of canvas
- #f2f0dd MG 200 ivory 5.0% of canvas
- #b35449 MG 017 scarlet red 2.5% of canvas
Color families
Gray 36%, Blue 24%, Black 15%, Brown 14%, White 6%
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Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the left half, 53% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.61 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 11% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 32% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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