Post-Impressionism · 1890
The Card Players
The Card Players (1890) by Paul Cézanne. Its palette is led by bistre (#261b15, 40%) and dark taupe (#4e3b2b, 23%), with accents of light amber gold. Overall the canvas is dark, moderately saturated and warm.
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
- #261b15 MG 219 bistre 40.3% of canvas
- #4e3b2b MG 177 dark taupe 22.9% of canvas
- #6a5233 MG 167 brown 19.1% of canvas
- #937a41 MG 039 gold 15.5% of canvas
- #bba969 MG 037 light amber gold 2.3% of canvas
Color families
Brown 57%, Black 30%, Yellow 9%, Gray 3%, Orange 2%
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Composition
60% of the visual weight is in the right half, 60% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.69 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 14% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 34% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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