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A living archive of how artists work with color across time. Each artist profile scans publicly available works to trace dominant colors, a chromatic fingerprint, and the arc of a palette across a lifetime.A living archive of how artists work with color across time, tracing palettes, fingerprints, and lifetime arcs from public works.

Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.

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Angelica Kauffman

Kauffman brought feminine grace to Neo-Classical painting. Her palette of soft pastels — rose, lavender, pale gold — renders history with intimate warmth.

Palette: #9F8561 #6B482B #E8DEC1 #462711 #752D18 #CFAA6D #896740 #B05323

  • Possibly Franciska Krasinska, Duchess of Courland (ca. 1790): #7E6C3E #4B310E #D2A75F #AB9351 #AD7C40 #6E4F22
  • Portrait of a Lady (ca. 1775): #3B3327 #584A33 #4D5854 #AB9373 #8A7457 #27241D
  • Miranda und Ferdinand (1782): #383023 #C0BCA0 #1B2320 #755228 #554027 #081D21
  • Marie Therese Gräfin Meerfeld, Geb. Gräfin Dietrichstein: #3F6B70 #154249 #BA471C #94401C #708D8C #0B110B
  • . Self-Portrait Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting (1791): #100D0B #A49F95 #DFDCD1 #54190B #D4AF82 #77200D
  • Abraham Banishing Hagar (1792): #473116 #2E1A06 #CDAC80 #6E2F0C #481605 #984A18
  • Death of Alcestis. (1790): #514638 #77533E #ECF1E4 #746E56 #A36045 #F7D890
  • Self-Portrait of the Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting (1794): #120E0C #A49C91 #D5D4CD #331C0E #403118 #5C1A0C
  • Zeuxis Selecting Models for His Painting of Helen of Troy.: #2B2020 #4A3129 #181317 #735036 #C29D6E #BA7044
  • Cephise Beschneidet (1782): #A88568 #150B0E #7C5D4B #614235 #908588 #47261F
  • Cephise und Ihr Geliebter (1782): #A9866D #180E11 #795A4B #573E37 #CFAB8B #A39392
  • Frances Ann Acland, Lady Hoare (1735/6-1800) (1773): #493E25 #32261A #5F361E #863922 #4A2E20 #7A592D
  • Hector Taking Leave of Andromache (1768): #3A291C #231D17 #5B3E21 #7E572E #18190F #68241D
  • Ulysses Discovering Achilles (1770): #281F1D #3B2A24 #543729 #3D1E14 #231912 #76553F
  • Venus Directing Aeneas and Achates to Carthage (1768): #452C22 #AC845C #2F1E1A #66422B #835836 #1F160F
  • A Man Called Sir Robert Hervey: #453A2A #AA8B57 #312624 #7F6541 #D8B772 #EBDCB7
  • Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing: #D1AA68 #4E3628 #A9792F #9B785C #68513B #34221C
  • Rinaldo and Armida (1771): #3A2510 #29190D #5C4522 #1A100A #5E270C #743510
  • Allegory of Poetry and Music. (1782): #27140B #542B0F #B19D61 #EBDFA6 #A79D83 #795015
  • Self-Portrait (1787): #1F1B17 #D5BA78 #676143 #402F23 #B0884D #855E38
  • Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin ((178): #1C0D07 #89794F #B3B690 #644B27 #472E15 #351C09
  • Cristinaameliadelasdossicilias: #F7FBEA #ABAC88 #D3DABC #878157 #1F1B19 #FAF2C4
  • Portrait of John Simpson (1777): #312214 #64584B #4A361E #1C0F0D #91806A #6D2817
  • Portrait of Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. (1790): #0C0C02 #272411 #604226 #2D1705 #B7967A #E7C9AE
  • Portrait of Ferdinand IV of Naples, and His Family (1783): #332F1D #524F17 #836C44 #544625 #0F0D0D #E2E2D7
  • Portrait of Angelica Kauffmann, Half Length in White Wearing a Red Shawl (18<s): #171D15 #432A14 #6E5A40 #EBD4C4 #2E362C #9C866F
  • Samuel Powel (ca. 1738-93): #09080C #17121F #40353B #702C30 #877067 #4F1E28
  • Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso (1782): #362614 #23160A #472510 #9E8E7D #6D4126 #956949
  • Zeuxis Selecting Models for His Painting of Helen of Troy (1764): #2A1E20 #412E27 #785136 #171216 #593C2D #C7A271

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