Jacob
Duck
The Gilded Precision of a Dutch Master In the vibrant, bustling landscape of the seventeenth-century Netherlands, few artists captured the quiet drama of existence with as much technical finesse and observational grace as Jacob Duck. Born in Utrecht around 1600, Duck’s journey into the world …
A portrait built from Jacob Duck'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.
