Anna
Ruysch
Early Life, Family and Training Anna Ruysch entered a world where the boundaries between scientific observation and visual representation were intentionally blurred. Born in The Hague in 1666, she was the daughter of Maria Post and Frederik Ruysch, a man whose authority in the fields …
A portrait built from Anna Ruysch's own colours
Every 4 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.