Auguste
de Creuse
The Luminous Legacy of Auguste de Creuse In the grand, sweeping tapestry of nineteenth-century French painting, certain names shine with an enduring brilliance, while others flicker like a candle in a drafty corridor, leaving behind only a hauntingly beautiful afterglow. Auguste de Creuse, born Jean-Pierre …
A portrait built from Auguste de Creuse's own colours
Every 8 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.