jacob
van oost
jacob van oost or jacob van oost the elder was a flemish painter of history paintings and portraits. he was the most important painter of bruges in the 17th century through his portraits of members of the local bourgeois and his many altarpieces made in …
A portrait built from jacob van oost's own colours
Every 4 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.
