Madame Léon Clapisson color palette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Mole#736E64RGB 115, 110, 10033%
- Midnight#121F34RGB 18, 31, 5218%
- Greige#D6CEC4RGB 214, 206, 19615%
- Clay rose#B96D68RGB 185, 109, 1044%
- Denim#2E5674RGB 46, 86, 1163%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Mole leads with 33% of the painting, and midnight follows with 18%.
Clay rose is the accent: only 4% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Light and dark are far apart: from greige at value 8 down to midnight at 1, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the painting its strong contrast.
Most of it is near-neutral (66% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Clay rose and denim sit on opposite sides of the color wheel, so each makes the other look stronger (see complementary colors).
The same colors in gray
Each color beside its value, from light to dark. Painters check this to see the painting’s structure without its colors.
Use this palette
Open the painting in Image to Palette to choose more or fewer colors, see the mixing strips, and save the palette for Procreate or Adobe.
