Dutch Golden Age · 1658
The Courtyard of a House in Delft
The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658) by Pieter de Hooch. Its palette is led by putty (#a69388, 23%) and stone (#7c665a, 23%), with accents of very dark sienna, scarlet red, silver and pale muted blue. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown covers about two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #D06860, takes up 6% of it.
Palette
- #a69388 MG 173 putty 23.4% of canvas
- #7c665a MG 175 stone 23.3% of canvas
- #5d443d MG 155 dark reddish brown 19.8% of canvas
- #bfad9a MG 172 oatmeal 14.1% of canvas
- #22151a MG 146 very dark sienna 6.9% of canvas
- #d06860 MG 017 scarlet red 6.3% of canvas
- #d6d5da MG 206 silver 5.2% of canvas
- #a9b7e5 MG 093 pale muted blue 1.0% of canvas
Color families
Brown 66%, Gray 12%, Red 11%, Black 4%, White 2%
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Composition
54% of the visual weight is in the right half, 50% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.58 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 9% 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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