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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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Armand Guillaumin

Guillaumin was the most chromatic of the Impressionists — his landscapes blaze with purples, magentas, and oranges that anticipate Fauvism by two decades.

Palette: #86877F #724D35 #866F59 #B09167 #CCB690 #151716 #8B723D #82541C

  • Self-Portrait (ca. 1872-74): #1F1D19 #423E32 #AF8D67 #906D4E #6C543E
  • The Banks of the Marne at Charenton (ca. 1895): #6C4729 #8F9487 #987244 #3B534B #6F724B #6C6C6B
  • Valley of the Sédelle at Pont Charraud: White Frost (ca. 1903-11): #8D8F84 #B6A082 #DCD0B1 #89A1A1 #96775F #625A4C
  • The Bridge of Louis Philippe (1875): #9FB9BC #335C61 #75877E #7CB1C4 #223C43 #4E7F8A
  • Village in Ile-De-France: #A27520 #3A3623 #475927 #9DB7A8 #635028 #7F6B39
  • Paysage à Pontgibaud: #18283D #3D5C70 #597066 #7F8870 #B59D87 #5E7E9E
  • Vallée de la Creuse (26 D): #CFBCAB #81511A #3B544B #A59586 #826A57 #2A3A33
  • Autoportrait au Chevaletself-Portrait with Palette (1878): #412D29 #684C3D #2A1E20 #A8774A #8B6C59 #211316
  • La Seine (1874): #A29597 #604A3D #D0CAC3 #322E24 #796F6F #1E1C12
  • Lesende (1900): #141817 #8D8B66 #293728 #7E5D38 #0B201D #272B23
  • Painting (1876): #445852 #719096 #586446 #273E3B #315E3F #84793D
  • Soleil Couchant à Ivrysoleil Couchant à Ivry (1869): #E6AF72 #96A09B #262D29 #4A5D5E #C4B391 #715B4C
  • Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne: #71665B #BA9A6E #4D4742 #D1BFA2 #927755 #353B3B
  • La Seine à Charenton (1885): #CAC59F #AFBCB4 #A39D86 #76828D #68604B #B9A46B
  • Landscape Near Saint-Julien-Des-Chazes (1895): #BA8442 #534740 #847346 #D4B48D #915B20 #61673D
  • View of Saint-Sauves (1905): #BA8C36 #807B7A #8B6E4F #916317 #594241 #686E52
  • Le Sancy in Snow, View from Saint-Sauves, 14 February (1896): #A77831 #B9BCAB #C29563 #87591C #54494C #90776A
  • Hollow in the Snow (1869): #C3D0B0 #EBF0BD #98AA9E #617579 #130A08 #ABA782
  • Le Docteur Martinez dans l'Atelier du Peintre: #5B5959 #120F0F #2F2B2C #6E574B #6E3F37 #5C5032
  • Le Moulin Brigand et Les Ruines du Château de Crozant: #585A50 #766848 #353936 #859383 #977A3E #A76F19
  • Landscape with Two Sailing Boats (1909): #F4D3CB #DED9EC #384554 #5B433E #5F7088 #B6BCDC
  • Le Puy-Barriou (1907): #CCC5A0 #717C68 #727F8C #A9B29C #979F65 #445464
  • Les Collines D'Anzême (1898): #B8CDC6 #BB9E73 #586186 #6A7D6B #C9B39B #BA9755
  • Les Pommiers à Damiette (1893): #AC9150 #A5A198 #746660 #9C9564 #4DA0BF #936B58
  • Moulins en Hollande Guillaumin (1904): #DCDEDE #BEB7BA #9499BE #997A82 #493151 #120B17
  • Railroad Bridge Over the Marne at Joinville: #686C66 #0F1614 #15241F #2A504A #434942 #2D3F1C
  • Rochers sur la Côte Bretonne ; Goulphar, Belle-Île (1895): #98AAAA #5F5A60 #867A6F #66878B #CECCC6 #736444
  • Auckland, Nz (ca. 1906): #AFBDB3 #BFAD97 #6A513B #9D816E #201B1C #BF9572
  • Apple Trees at Damiette (1893): #A59864 #928A81 #A98A40 #3A9CBF #BCB8AB #845F50
  • Landscape: Harvest-Time in the Somme Valley (1841-1927): #9D9F99 #777D5B #AB9B75 #414F38 #1F2D21
  • Vallée de la Creuse (1895): #B9B1AE #273333 #4C5E5D #7F8282 #130E08 #AB8643
  • Pointe Notre-Dame-Du-Trayas (1913): #A9A298 #6C3C1A #5E3A26 #8F5D31 #4B230D #CEC3B9
  • Les Ruines du Château de Crozant (1898): #AB8044 #555046 #998C84 #624134 #BA967B #855724
  • Landscape of the Creuse, in Spring: #AA948B #92955B #A3B7C1 #817480 #526648 #8E6F5A
  • Landscape: #CFC4AB #87685C #60564A #3E352D #7A7B6B #6D493A
  • Landscape of the Creuse: #ACA499 #624D4C #353E41 #817961 #5D6665 #493130
  • Breuillet: #978935 #CAC09F #3B4754 #4F5045 #8C866C #633D28
  • Damiette Road: #A6B1AE #899785 #D4C2B1 #A9816E #567C71 #545D5D
  • Still Life: #AAAFB2 #BBA890 #798A8E #335862 #DAD8CD #924C49
  • Grainstacks in Île-De-France (1894): #AEB0A8 #74484A #C8B596 #4A6664 #91695F #A88469
  • Notre Dame of Paris: #CCC9C6 #AB9E85 #5F5642 #8F7957 #DECFB9 #B49D73
  • Garden in Provence (le Jardin Provençal) (1920): #113946 #7B897E #2B5E64 #808F31 #0C553A #094B1C
  • Work on the Pont National: #BBB7A1 #96794A #262323 #859193 #756547 #777770
  • The Austerlitz Quay in Paris (1877): #CDCBBD #C5894D #5B260D #985A2A #793D18 #401204
  • La Creuse à Genetin (1880): #796951 #B3A07E #504A38 #6B4D32 #938F7A #303120
  • The Jetty (1895): #B0B094 #94825E #7C8C7B #51776F #608692 #324143
  • The Coast at St Palais (1893): #C0B8A9 #544237 #4B5349 #89968B #895B3E #2D2D2C
  • Les Dunes de la Covarde, Ile de Ré (1893): #D6D2BC #AA9F87 #DAC09B #ACBBA6 #8B7461 #6C8174
  • Riverbank, Autumn (1910): #E6DEC5 #666970 #C4CDC0 #A1A6A8 #433C32 #2C251D
  • Soleil Couchant à Ivry (1873): #E8AD6E #222B28 #D5B383 #9FA196 #769CA7 #3C4F52
  • The Bouchardon Mill (1905): #C6C8CD #AB9F9D #818287 #8C786A #5C6168 #63564E
  • Portrait of the Artist (1875): #838383 #383D4F #616168 #F5D4CB #DAB29E #826964
  • View of the Seine, Paris (1871): #1C1F14 #8B7036 #848781 #0D0C07 #5E4928 #3A3C2D
  • Crozant, Pont Charraud (1903): #B4ADA8 #7B6A4F #58414E #6D6E76 #505E4A #674A30
  • Moret sur Loing (1902): #C5CCD1 #7497A1 #868A82 #2D5764 #A09365 #647486
  • River Scene (1890): #AEBDC7 #D9DAC8 #7F888C #B0B4AE #5B6367 #2F363B
  • Mountainous Landscape (1895): #8C8173 #8A6951 #BBC5C4 #566858 #79815A #344338
  • The Banks of the Marne at Charenton (1895): #8A8D72 #4B5138 #36433E #6D552E #232C28 #666845
  • Valley of the Sédelle at Pont Charraud: White Frost (1907): #929589 #B59978 #DDD0B1 #72766E #BCB59D #8F6E53
  • The Road Mender (le Cantonnier) (1890): #978583 #212529 #AA9B74 #8E654A #495155 #7F7E4F
  • Self-Portrait with Palette (1878): #3A2825 #6C5142 #90633C #211517 #4D3D3C #B48861
  • Railroad Bridge Over the Marne at Joinville (1871): #0F1916 #5E625F #2B514C #888A7C #30421B #422B18
  • The Bouchardon Mill, Crozant (1898): #A8A7A7 #76818B #275E5F #86644F #553D35 #6F5C31
  • The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing (1874): #707451 #586B34 #A2AB8C #3E4C2C #979262 #2C3319
  • Bridge in the Mountains (1898): #8D7941 #B89460 #95816B #956A51 #3C4640 #6B6D62
  • The Caverns of Prunal Near Pontgibaud (Auvergne) (1914): #9E886B #796865 #D6C9B8 #C3A88B #554B47 #A1755B
  • Village in Ile-De-France (1888): #3A3620 #AA7E25 #7F5114 #9FB7A7 #665531 #87713E
  • Agay (1899): #CCC6AD #3F7796 #C7A972 #59302B #753A31 #4B3F43
  • Landscape in Pontgibaud (1895): #636D6F #C4A373 #16171A #928C72 #30393C #E5C9B0
  • Epinay sur Orge (1885): #D3DFE3 #F0E8C6 #8C7934 #55552C #6E7249 #525E5B
  • Creuse Landscape : Fog to Crozant (1910): #A78C65 #5B5D4F #749066 #7E7558 #768140 #395F4F
  • Still Life with Apples (1880): #202527 #403F25 #3B4443 #82946E #8C2A16 #70462F
  • Hoarfrost in Crozant (1901): #CBBDB4 #A69290 #837E9A #896966 #AFB7B6 #614541
  • Blossoming Apple Trees (1898): #928982 #C8C7C3 #76945F #A08468 #64745A #594E47

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