Dutch Golden Age · 1668
The Happy Family
The Happy Family (1668) by Jan Steen. Its palette is led by dark amber brown (#66472c, 32%) and dark taupe (#4b3624, 32%), with accents of blue black and light sand. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown covers nearly nine-tenths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, brown #7E5C38, takes up 23% of it.
Palette
- #66472c MG 168 dark amber brown 32.1% of canvas
- #4b3624 MG 177 dark taupe 31.6% of canvas
- #7e5c38 MG 167 brown 23.2% of canvas
- #1b1916 MG 221 blue black 7.7% of canvas
- #c5a883 MG 181 light sand 5.5% of canvas
Color families
Brown 87%, Black 9%, Orange 2%, Yellow 1%, White 0%
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Composition
50% of the visual weight is in the left half, 51% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.60 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 26% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 29% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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- A Mayor of Delft and his Daughter, 1655
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