Henri
Edmond Cross
A Life Bathed in Light: The Journey of Henri Edmond Cross Henri Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix in 1856 in the northern French town of Douai, was an artist whose life and work were inextricably linked to a pursuit of light, color, and a harmonious …
A portrait built from Henri Edmond Cross's own colours
Every 93 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.
