Realism · 1882
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882) by John Singer Sargent. Its palette is led by soot (#130e0c, 25%) and brown (#755d45, 24%), with accents of pewter, white and red. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and warm.
Color reading
Black and brown cover more than three-quarters of the canvas. Its most vivid color, red #A25039, takes up just 1% of it.
Palette
- #130e0c MG 223 soot 24.6% of canvas
- #755d45 MG 167 brown 24.4% of canvas
- #281d14 MG 219 bistre 23.8% of canvas
- #4e3a25 MG 177 dark taupe 17.8% of canvas
- #918e89 MG 214 pewter 6.5% of canvas
- #eeeeee MG 205 white 1.8% of canvas
- #a25039 MG 018 red 1.1% of canvas
Color families
Black 39%, Brown 39%, Gray 20%, White 1%, Red 1%
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Composition
56% of the visual weight is in the left half, 67% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.21 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 45% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 22% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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