jean
petitot the elder
The Luminous Legacy of Jean Petitot the Elder In the delicate, shimmering world of seventeenth-century miniature portraiture, few names command as much reverence as Jean Petitot the Elder. A master of the rare and demanding medium of enamel painting, Petitot did not merely capture faces; …
A portrait built from jean petitot the elder'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.
