karl
pierre daubigny
The Legacy of Light: The Life and Art of Karl Pierre Daubigny In the golden age of French landscape painting, few artists captured the ephemeral dance of light and shadow as intimately as Karl Pierre Daubigny. Born in Paris in 1846, Daubigny was destined for …
A portrait built from karl pierre daubigny's own colours
Every 16 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.