Henry
Ritter
The Dual Identity of a Genre Painter To understand Henry Ritter, one must look past the simple label of a German painter and recognize the friction between his Canadian origins and his German training. Born in Montreal in 1816, Ritter did not follow the commercial …
A portrait built from Henry Ritter's own colours
Every 2 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.