Nicolas
Gabriel Dupuis
The Quiet Maestro of Rococo Illustration In the glittering, often overwhelming landscape of eighteenth-century French art, where flamboyant masters like Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Charles André van Lont commanded the grandest stages, there existed a more subtle, meticulous form of brilliance. Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (1698–1771) was a …
A portrait built from Nicolas Gabriel Dupuis'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.