Ferdinand
Guillaumin
early life and career Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841 – 1927) was born in Paris, France, the grandson of Jean Joseph Guillaumin who was a notary by trade. Sent to school at a young age, he demonstrated an early aptitude for drawing and painting, nurturing …
A portrait built from Ferdinand Guillaumin's own colours
Every 70 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.
