prosper
lafaye
A Courtly Brush: The Life and Art of Prosper Lafaye Prosper Lafaye, born as Lafait in 1806 in the quiet village of Mont-Saint-Sulpice, was a painter whose career unfolded against the backdrop of a France navigating revolution, restoration, and finally, a more settled constitutional monarchy …
A portrait built from prosper lafaye's own colours
Every 4 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.
