Rococo · 1720
The Shop Sign of Gersaint
The Shop Sign of Gersaint (1720) by Antoine Watteau. Its palette is led by dark sienna (#3d2c2b, 35%) and reddish brown (#6d4c43, 32%), with accents of light tan. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown covers about three-quarters of the canvas. Its most vivid color, reddish brown #946956, takes up 21% of it.
Palette
- #3d2c2b MG 145 dark sienna 34.6% of canvas
- #6d4c43 MG 154 reddish brown 32.3% of canvas
- #946956 MG 153 reddish brown 21.5% of canvas
- #be9b83 MG 164 light tan 6.8% of canvas
- #e4d5c3 MG 201 parchment 4.8% of canvas
Color families
Brown 74%, Black 13%, Gray 3%, White 3%, Orange 3%
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Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the left half, 58% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.60 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 5% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 32% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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