Adriaen
van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade: A Life in Dutch Genre Painting Early Life and Training Born: 1610 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Van Ostade came from a family of artists; his father, Jan van Ostade, was a tapestry weaver. This artistic environment likely fostered his early interest in visual …
A portrait built from Adriaen van Ostade's own colours
Every 56 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.
