Ash gray (#B2BEB5) and Bistre (#3D2B1F) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Jean Baptiste van Moer, Willem de Famars Testas, and Alexander Koester and the Romanticism tradition. Painters typically deployed ash gray at an average of 27% of the canvas, with bistre at 11%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Eerie black (#1B1B1B), Shadow (#8A795D), and Drab dark brown (#4A412A).
