Charles
Le Brun
Early Life and Training Born: Paris, France (1619) Baptised: 24 February 1619 Died: 12 February 1690 Paris, Kingdom of France Charles Le Brun displayed artistic talent from a young age. At the age of eleven, he entered the studio of Simon Vouet under the patronage …
A portrait built from Charles Le Brun's own colours
Every 34 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.
