Pieter
van der Willigen
The Quiet Observer of Mortality In the bustling streets of Bergen op Zoom, a young man began to observe the world not through its grand movements, but through the stillness of the objects left behind. Born in 1634, Pieter van der Willigen sought to capture …
A portrait built from Pieter van der Willigen'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.