Claude
Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée): A Life in Light and Landscape Early Life and Training Born around 1600 in Chamagne, a small village in the Duchy of Lorraine (modern-day France), Claude Lorrain – originally Claude Gellée – remains one of the most celebrated landscape painters of …
A portrait built from Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)'s own colours
Every 100 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.