Joseph
Wright de Derby
Joseph Wright de Derby : Une Vie Illuminée par la Science et l'Art Joseph Wright de Derby, né le 3 septembre 1734 à Irongate, près de Derby, et décédé le 29 août 1797 dans la même ville, est un peintre britannique majeur, reconnu pour son …
A portrait built from Joseph Wright de Derby'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.