Romanticism · 1800
The Clothed Maja
The Clothed Maja (1800) by Francisco Goya. Its palette is led by bistre (#29221d, 52%) and dark grey (#5f5c5a, 15%), with accents of pewter, cool white and amber. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and warm.
Color reading
Black and gray cover more than four-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, amber #9B6D1F, takes up just 2% of it.
Palette
- #29221d MG 219 bistre 52.1% of canvas
- #5f5c5a MG 216 dark grey 15.0% of canvas
- #09090a MG 223 soot 13.1% of canvas
- #c3bfbf MG 212 pale grey 8.0% of canvas
- #8d8987 MG 214 pewter 7.5% of canvas
- #eaeae9 MG 204 cool white 2.3% of canvas
- #9b6d1f MG 034 amber 1.9% of canvas
Color families
Black 53%, Gray 30%, Brown 11%, White 3%, Yellow 1%
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Composition
57% of the visual weight is in the right half, 64% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.00 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 39% 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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