Adélaide
Labille Guiard
A Portrait of Resilience: The Life and Art of Adélaide Labille Guiard Adélaide Labille Guiard (1749-1803) emerged from the vibrant, yet often restrictive, artistic landscape of 18th-century France as a formidable portraitist. Her story is not merely one of talent and ambition, but also of …
A portrait built from Adélaide Labille Guiard's own colours
Every 13 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.
