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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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Eva Gonzalès

Gonzalès, Manet's only formal student, painted with fresh spontaneity. Her palette balances black elegance with soft pastels — white dresses, pink flowers, dove-gray atmospheres.

Palette: #C1AF97 #7C664B #3C352A #585344 #533E26 #997047 #6D3F28 #C9985D

  • Virgin and Child (15th century): #442821 #614432 #7E664A #2A1A18 #9A8869 #1B1111
  • Am Wasser: #5D5032 #A29C92 #383627 #7D745A #30241E #8D7649
  • Children on the Sand Dunes, Grandcamp: #AAA185 #C8C4B7 #7F7961 #88918C #5A5242 #5B7380
  • Self-Portrait' Certified (Dece): #8E8072 #795F4A #100C08 #2D261E #4A4238 #583E26
  • Enfant de Troupe (1870): #1D1C18 #342218 #542B1B #7A341F #B04D29 #D99657
  • La Plante Favorite: #514E47 #8D8581 #B19E91 #453229 #2C1E1A #876253
  • The Donkey Ride (1880): #868576 #7A684D #534E40 #4E4024 #38311F #A48B65
  • The Donkey Ride (1880): #3A3B25 #5A421F #5C593B #35423D #947749 #506465
  • Afternoon Tea or on the Terrace (1875): #323025 #533C2C #978E87 #66655A #A87C41 #81664C
  • Anémones au Vase Bleu: #1D1816 #382F25 #69553B #9D8262 #51554E #C1B3A3
  • Bouquet: #B19A83 #877054 #E4D2C0 #5C5134 #26120C #772312
  • Le Cornet de Fleurs: #5B2E2A #765D36 #7D796F #E3DEC7 #3A2B1D #543F24
  • Branches de Pêches: #644430 #42261E #8F6E50 #291615 #CD9268 #5A3320
  • Dans Les Blés (Dieppe): #C08C5B #C6AFA1 #9E724F #B08C7E #805C47 #442620
  • Femme et Enfant sur la Plage: #806F4E #9A998C #667C6E #5F624D #BDB5A1 #54472A
  • Frère et Soeur (Grandcamp): #98947A #D6D3C2 #767D6D #796C4C #D4C196 #4E4839
  • Girl with Cherries: #1D200E #BCB7A2 #7B765C #4E4E36 #B49C79 #33341F
  • La Toilette (1879): #0E0D17 #CEAB9A #D4C7A8 #35242B #B38D70 #5B3E40
  • Le Petit Lever (1875): #231214 #D3C5BC #513B37 #7B3F28 #3B292A #867877
  • Les Oseraies (Ferme en Brie): #5C4E20 #CBBBB3 #3D3614 #847552 #181009 #856D2E
  • Mademoiselle Sarrasin (c. 1): #9C8E84 #BFB2A6 #8C745F #6F5946 #9D6556 #503F33
  • Morning Awakening (1877): #E2C6A9 #B59C77 #926F2E #A59590 #F8C067 #6A5E48
  • Nanny and Child ((187): #3C3B2A #5D5336 #B0997F #26291C #545346 #80755C
  • Reading in the Forest (Tea Time) (1880): #3A3026 #573D2A #625549 #21160C #8D6249 #8D7B6F
  • Roses dans Un Verre: #897F74 #DCD9C9 #B5AEA5 #43412E #757345 #99906A
  • Secretly: #E4DBC7 #20120D #725A3F #C8B596 #4B3726 #A28E73
  • The Milliner: #B9B4B0 #6F86A4 #BFC8DA #B6997B #170E0B #3E2214
  • Souliers Blancs / White Shoes: #1B110E #A48A75 #352318 #513828 #6F5545 #6A361E
  • Sur la Plage, Dieppe: #8B7353 #5B5A54 #5A4A36 #373C3E #312114 #AB997B
  • La Servante Ou a la Barrière, Ppp5023(3) (Entr): #6B4A30 #484036 #8E6B4F #D8D5D3 #48301E #C0B19D
  • Sleep (1877): #AD906F #ABA08A #7E725D #61543E #473A2A #D8CFBD
  • En Train de Peindre dans le Studio de Manet (1870): #373326 #201F17 #11110C #978458 #473821 #655C47
  • Vase of Roses: #5B4C36 #A6947E #3C321F #130D08 #252012 #816F57
  • Portrait of Jeanne Gonzales in Profile (1883): #786354 #4C3834 #1C0D13 #A28266 #6D4A39 #352021
  • Portrait of a Woman (1879): #23151C #D9CFBF #120812 #492F2D #968F81 #CDA984
  • The Spanish Lady (1882): #C0BAA5 #D5C19B #798070 #C3A174 #3C3D36 #917552
  • The Young Student (1875-76): #4B423A #261F1E #97927F #3B2B22 #6F695B #584330
  • A Box at the Theatre des Italiens (1874): #221F25 #E3DEDA #141316 #BCB2A9 #999087 #514327
  • Girl with Cherries (1870): #23130F #D5CCB9 #6F624D #999787 #CEAE8E #4D3E2E
  • Morning Awakening (1877): #E6D9C6 #ADA092 #705031 #8C7B5C #CCB693 #EECA8E
  • Profile of a Young Man: #312E26 #181712 #453624 #6E583D #252015 #85745A
  • Children on the Sand Dunes, Grandcamp (1877): #ACA286 #C7C5BD #919485 #69777B #767562 #957C55
  • Afternoon Tea: #47301B #281B10 #A49487 #150F0B #6A4B2E #746757
  • Madam E.g. (Madame Emmanuel Gonzalès, the Artist's Mother) (1873): #503F2E #B38F60 #342C23 #8F734F #715D44 #7C3D30

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