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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.

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Anne-Louis Girodet

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, also known as Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson or simply Girodet, was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who participated in the early Romantic movement by including elements of eroticism in his paintings.

Palette: #2E1E15 #C6A782 #523D2D #8A6E54 #774623 #A8794E #6D2915 #A35427

  • Burial of Atala (after 1808): #130D08 #302E19 #0E2316 #4C472E #111A0F #271B0C
  • Portret van Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), Koningin van Holland, Echtgenote van Koning Lodewijk Napoleon (1805): #161811 #BAA991 #846854 #AF7A6A #744C38 #4F4E3F
  • Portret de Femeie: #191718 #C0A676 #34231A #B3844C #927B4F #2A2322
  • Aurora (by 1): #39392D #231C0E #7B9491 #BAC1B7 #525F58 #ECE4D4
  • Minerva Between Apollo and Mercury (1814-15): #58AEBC #CAC9AF #616B55 #AE8253 #91906E #B47F2F
  • The Revolt of Cairo (1810): #433034 #65463D #90603E #82483E #C97F3C #B36B3E
  • Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes (1802): #6E5C44 #2B2328 #141017 #8D8876 #4C4642 #B7B7AF
  • Portrait of Joachim Murat (firs): #3C2F2C #6D4125 #4D3023 #261D20 #8E663F #614433
  • Self-Portrait (earl): #1A090B #2A1C14 #E1BE90 #BC8E5E #653617 #9E6D3F
  • Head of a Woman in a Turban: #AE8E6B #E6CFA3 #24171C #472423 #751620 #886246
  • Portrait of a Youth: #473607 #B5A97A #352703 #120D05 #7D7342 #735716
  • Portrait of a Youth: #383225 #B2ABA3 #181512 #645B4E #7F7B74 #A17965
  • Apollo: #5F97DE #CBC0A1 #3B4C5D #3D79C8 #552C15 #48739F
  • Head of the Virgin (1834): #B6B2A0 #DBB088 #6A391D #251E09 #34350D #C08D65
  • Autoportrait (19<s): #625B4F #242B2E #413433 #C29C81 #181C21 #976F59
  • Benoît Agnès Trioson (1797): #29211B #4D4031 #A37E57 #241109 #351D10 #784F28
  • Capanaée ,Téte du Blasphémateur par Girodet: #22211C #4E301F #7C482C #3A2C22 #D09D87 #F2D2BB
  • Portrait d’Un Homme Méditant sur Les Ruines de Rome (1809): #989EB6 #66574C #443D37 #31291F #1F1713 #C8BABF
  • Copy of the Oath of the Horatii (1786): #6F5B4D #321F23 #1B0A15 #D29466 #B37543 #985427
  • Portrait of J. B. Belley, Deputy for Saint-Domingue Detail (1798): #2F2826 #8A7461 #503730 #705042 #DEE7CC #C2B796
  • Jésus Chassant Les Marchands du Temple (1986): #301F17 #876A4E #1A100D #573F2D #9C5037 #5E2B18
  • Longchamp081 Girodet Fravega (2018): #1A2029 #666E7A #101014 #411D0D #334255 #6D2E0B
  • Colette-Désirée-Thérèse Godefroy (1823): #251B0D #0B0705 #2E250D #6F5A44 #E3C1A2 #4A3923
  • De Roussy-Trioson , Portrait de Dominique-Jean Larrey (2023): #121918 #0A0806 #25130B #A1764C #3F2013 #C5966B
  • Napoleon Groot (1833): #18050F #EDD7DD #0D0017 #9F7B78 #CDABA5 #B06C4C
  • Scene of the Flood (1806): #332B2C #624D40 #141418 #9C7A5A #FAF1B0 #D9AE73
  • Study for "Portrait of an Indian: #BBC2B8 #3B1009 #0D1208 #5A250E #85300E #A5422A
  • The Sleep of Endymion (1791): #1C1613 #372D23 #554735 #A88F74 #826B52 #D3BDA5
  • Une Scène de Délugescene of the Flood (1806): #433926 #1D1612 #6A5737 #302D22 #DDE1DA #867D62

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