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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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Jules Bastien-Lepage

Jules Bastien-Lepage was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of Naturalism, an artistic style that grew out of the Realist movement and paved the way for the development of Impressionism.

Palette: #55422B #BFA584 #312B21 #776245 #A98358 #8C795F #3F2713 #95A2B3

  • Albert Wolff in His Study (1881): #2B1911 #18100E #4F3924 #1A1B1B #422112 #373125
  • Simon Hayem (1875): #343631 #162223 #8C7142 #CB9D5C #604B32 #EED8A1
  • Sarah Bernhardt (1844): #2A2620 #7E6D4F #4F422E #B69D71 #714F33
  • Hvitt Hus I Damvillers: #99A6B9 #8C816B #BDAD93 #575340 #DDD3C2 #765342
  • Self-Portrait: #452D13 #6D4B27 #915D2C #322112 #EBB77E #D0935C
  • André Theuriet (1878): #161920 #494948 #232736 #645F54 #D69F6D #2C2927
  • Diogenes (1873): #8C765A #6A553E #4E3D2E #261813 #C6A888 #392D27
  • Resting Peasants (1877): #535C3C #AA925A #303126 #7F7E4D #D7BE87 #838A78
  • Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings (1903): #7B6F52 #B5A783 #F1DBB0 #4E4532 #393021 #282015
  • October (1878): #554124 #73664B #9D907C #C6BFAE #3B3C33 #3C2813
  • Pas Mèche (Nothing Doing) (1882): #766241 #4E3F2A #362C1F #211C15 #644426 #11100F
  • Portrait of Madame Waskiewicz (1881): #282625 #181414 #42241F #56493A #301816 #D0A989
  • The Annunciation to the Shepherds (1875): #514F43 #1A1B14 #312A1C #5D4A32 #0E0F0C #8C7657
  • Son Grand-Pèrethe Artist's Grandfather (1874): #0C0A0B #5F5E49 #3A3C34 #211F1E #8D7954 #E59E82
  • All Souls' Day (1878): #E0D5D0 #D7B388 #92745B #5C4834 #A87B4F #815737
  • Il Mendicante (1880): #593E28 #D9B792 #AC7242 #845E3E #FAE3C7 #A7886A
  • Julien Bastien-Lepage, Papà Jacques (1881): #A8977E #D29E5F #573E2C #7F593A #9E7954 #A8652A
  • Julien Bastien-Lepage, Papà Jacques (1881): #797461 #A68760 #1E211E #544F41 #8B9BAC #76563A
  • La Toussaint (20 J): #D1C6C1 #B0987F #8C7056 #423327 #64554A #664B32
  • The Beggar (1880): #54452E #C5B99A #7C6441 #2B221A #90856D #B38A55

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