Martin
Drolling
The Legacy of Drolling the Elder In the vibrant and shifting landscape of late eighteenth-century French art, few names evoke the intimate charm of domestic life quite like Martin Drolling. Known to many as Drolling the Elder to distinguish him from his illustrious son, this …
A portrait built from Martin Drolling'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.