Dutch Golden Age · c. 1665
The Feast of Saint Nicholas
The Feast of Saint Nicholas (c. 1665) by Jan Steen. Its palette is led by bistre (#261f15, 60%) and dark amber brown (#5b3b24, 25%), with accents of light golden sand. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and warm.
Color reading
Brown and black cover almost all of the canvas. Even its most colorful tone, dark amber brown #5B3B24, stays close to gray.
Palette
- #261f15 MG 219 bistre 60.1% of canvas
- #5b3b24 MG 168 dark amber brown 25.1% of canvas
- #695840 MG 184 umber 7.9% of canvas
- #857357 MG 183 golden umber 4.7% of canvas
- #a39c85 MG 190 light golden sand 2.1% of canvas
Color families
Brown 55%, Black 44%, Orange 0%, Gray 0%, Yellow 0%
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Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the left half, 61% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.24 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 45% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 26% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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