Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883), ca. 1831–34. Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 7/8 in. (40.6 x 32.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943. Public domain (CC0).

Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, ca. 1831–34. Oil on canvas.

Profile
Soft light
Painting

Head and shoulders in profile facing right with the eyes lowered, lit from the upper left, the shoulders only sketched on a pale ground.

Open in the value study maker

The image is free to use for any purpose: the museum has released it into the public domain.

Value studies

Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883) as a study in 2 values — **Notan, 2 values.** Split at value 5.6: 21% of the picture is dark and 79% light.

Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883) as a study in 3 values — **3 values.** 14% dark (values 0 to 4.1), 16% middle (4.1 to 6.9) and 70% light (6.9 to 10).

Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883) as a study in 5 values — **5 values.** From darkest to lightest: 9%, 11%, 11%, 27% and 43% of the picture.

Split at the picture's natural breaks between light and dark, with Simplify at 5, as in the value study maker. Values run from 0 (black) to 10 (white).

Palette

#E1D2B2Value 8.5, warm
40%
#D0BF9BValue 7.8, warm
24%
#C2A779Value 7.0, warm
12%
#785D27Value 4.1, warm
7%
#A47B45Value 5.5, warm
6%
#4F3D1CValue 2.7, warm
5%
#26251AValue 1.4, neutral
5%
#010102Value 0.0, neutral
2%

The 8 main colors run from value 0.0 to 8.5: 6 warm and 2 neutral. See warm and cool colors for how the labels are worked out.

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