James
Tissot
Early Life, Family and Artistic Training Born in 1836 in the port city of Nantes, France, Jacques Joseph Tissot was the son of a family deeply connected to the textures and aesthetics of commerce. His father, Marcel Tissot, found success as a drapery merchant, a …
A portrait built from James Tissot's own colours
Every 100 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.