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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.

Scanning works…

Jan van Huysum

6 works, 1700 to 1728.

Palette: #999068 #606D5C #404838 #2A2618 #5B4F2F #795029 #443822 #A37642

  • Flowers in an Urn (ca. 1720-22): #4A3E28 #3C4D44 #6E532D #948C75 #874726 #2D1F17
  • Arcadisch Landschap Met Vissers (1700): #6D6E64 #2A2610 #151206 #554A2C #455A69 #3B381C
  • Stilleven Met Vruchten (1700): #524421 #797646 #694D1F #302B1B #AD9F65 #8E5F2D
  • Stilleven Met Bloemen (1723): #4C4B31 #73795D #353D33 #ACA888 #615435 #7D5733
  • Stilleven Met Bloemen en Vruchten (1728): #88794D #7D8A60 #B8B281 #7A4C2F #4C6753 #A37142
  • Stilleven Met Bloemen en Vruchten (1721): #15140F #26291E #464B3C #707051 #433521 #2D2114

The Palette

The Works

How the palette changed

Chromatic Comparison

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