Charles
Boit
The Goldsmith's Apprentice Stockholm, 1662. A child is born into a Huguenot family, the son of a merchant who manages the royal indoor tennis court. The boy’s path begins not with a brush, but with the heavy, precise tools of a goldsmith. At fifteen, he …
A portrait built from Charles Boit's own colours
Every 17 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.