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Over 250 years before the Color-Industrial Complex appeared, Mr. Boogert, a mysterious Dutch artist, detailed every color in the spectrum—only he did it all by hand. Boogert dissertation to demonstrate how to mix watercolor paint and how to manipulate the paint’s value by adding water, resulted in a 700-page book titled Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau. The treatise is about as thorough a color guide as one could imagine in a pre-Pantone world. Boogert apparently intended the book to be educational for aspiring artists but, unfortunately, only a few at the time ever got a chance to see the one-of-a-kind book.
Thanks to Dutch art historian Erik Kwakkel, who translated the introduction and posted selections from the book on his blog, current day artists have access to high resolution images of the complete book. Following are a few selected pages:
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