Edouard
Frère
A Life Immersed in the Everyday: Pierre Édouard Frère and the Poetics of Domesticity Pierre Édouard Frère, born in Paris on January 10th, 1819, and passing away in Écouen on May 23rd, 1886, occupies a unique and cherished position within the pantheon of 19th-century French …
A portrait built from Edouard Frère's own colours
Every 1 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.
