Merry-Joseph
Blondel
Early Life and Training Born: July 25, 1781, Paris, France Died: June 12, 1853, Paris, France Parents: Joseph-Armand Blondel (painter and stucco expert) and Marie-Geneviève Marchand. Early apprenticeship at the Dihl and Guerhard porcelain factory provided foundational drawing skills under Charles-Étienne Leguay. Studied with Baron …
A portrait built from Merry-Joseph Blondel's own colours
Every 5 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.
