Johann
Baptist Scheffer
The Legacy of Johan Bernard Scheffer In the tapestry of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century European art, few figures possess a lineage as artistically profound as Johan Bernard Scheffer. Born in 1764 in Homberg, Hesse-Kassel, this German-born painter and etcher carried with him a refined …
A portrait built from Johann Baptist Scheffer's own colours
Every 15 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.