Joseph
Ducreux
A Courtier’s Wit: The Life and Art of Joseph Ducreux Joseph Ducreux, a name perhaps unfamiliar to many outside the circles of art history, occupies a fascinating niche in the late 18th-century French artistic landscape. Born in Nancy in 1735, his journey from the workshop …
A portrait built from Joseph Ducreux's own colours
Every 6 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.
