Pour apprendre aisément à Peindre sans Maître. Ouvrage corrigé & augmenté sur le plan de l'ancien de diverses Instructions Préliminaires sur la Peinture en général, & de Préceptes sur le Dessein pour en faciliter l'Étude & la Pratique. AUQUEL ON A AJOÛTÉ. Un petit Traité de la Peinture au Pastel, avec la Méthode de composer les Pastels. Le Secret de de faire les belles Couleurs, l'Or Bruny, l'Or en Coquille, & le Vernis de la Chine. Avec une Explication par ordre Alphabétique de tous les Termes propres au Dessein & à la Peinture. A LA HAYE, Chez Louis & Henry van Dole, Marchands Libraires, dans le Pooten. M. D. CCVIII. (1708).

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 Hand-painted colour circles from the 1708 edition of Traite de la Peinture in Mignature, attributed to Claude Boutet, including the oldest example of the symmetrical 12-hue artists colour wheel (right). The symmetrical twelve-hue system proved enduringly popular among artists, designers and teachers. In its original orientation, or rotated, it appears in numerous versions in the writings of later theorists and artists. Assisted partly by the inexplicable popularity of Itten's books, it remains for many the colour wheel. After Newton invented the circular dimension of hue, it was only a small step to apply this dimension to the artist's linear scale of 'simple' and 'composite' colours. This step seems to have been first taken in a diagram added to this 1708 edition of the Traite de la Peinture en Mignature, attributed to Claude Boutet. In this work the author took the additional step, thanks also to Newton's influence, of removing white and black from the scale of simple colours, leaving just yellow, red and blue as the three primary colours ('Couleurs Primitives'). In a move followed in most succeeding colour circles for artists, the author abandoned the unequal spacing of Newton's hue scale in favour of the equal spacing of the artist's colour scale. In the twelve colour version of the colour wheel, this resulted in the three primary colours, yellow, red and blue, being evenly spaced at 0º, 120º and 240º respectively, and each directly opposite one of the three secondary colours (purple, green and orange respectively). The clockwise sequence of colours follows the order of the artists' colour scale (yellow-red-blue) rather than the sequence of the spectrum (red-yellow-blue), so that the order of the colours around the circle is reversed compared to Newton's. The result is essentially identical to the colour wheel of Itten.