Agustín
Esteve
The Legacy of Agustín Esteve y Marqués: A Portraitist of the Spanish Soul In the vibrant, shifting landscape of late 18th-century Spain, few artists captured the intersection of aristocratic elegance and psychological depth as masterfully as Agustín Esteve y Marqués. Born in Valencia in 1753, …
A portrait built from Agustín Esteve's own colours
Every 20 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.