Gerrit
Willemsz Heda
The Quiet Brilliance of Gerrit Willemsz Heda In the golden, amber-hued light of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, few artists captured the delicate tension between abundance and decay as poignantly as Gerrit Willemsz Heda. A master of the still life, Heda’s brief but luminous career allowed …
A portrait built from Gerrit Willemsz Heda's own colours
Every 3 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.