The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Charles
Baugniet

1814 — 1886 · 19th Century

The Brussels Academy and the Rise of the Lithographer Brussels, 1827. A young Charles-Louis Baugniet enters the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. He sits under the instruction of Joseph Paelinck and Florent Willems, absorbing the technical rigors of his craft. By 1827, his hands are already …

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Charles Baugniet
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Charles Baugniet's own colours

Every 12 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.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

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.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers