Jean
de Troy
The Precision of Jean de Troy To look at the surviving works of Jean de Troy is to witness a specific, disciplined approach to seventeenth-century French painting. He was not a painter of vague abstractions but one of concrete subjects and clear intentions. Born in …
A portrait built from Jean de Troy's own colours
Every 2 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.