Jean-François
Demay
A Life Captured in Motion Born in the French town of Mirecourt, Jean-François Demay emerged as a distinctive voice within the nineteenth-century French art scene. A self-taught painter, he possessed an innate ability to translate the vibrant pulse of everyday life onto canvas without the …
A portrait built from Jean-François Demay's own colours
Every 1 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.