Color one

Bistre

#3D2B1F

Color two

Drab dark brown

#4A412A

Bistre (#3D2B1F) and Drab dark brown (#4A412A) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Adolph Tidemand, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Francisco de Zurbaran and the Romanticism tradition. Painters typically deployed bistre at an average of 38% of the canvas, with drab dark brown at 19%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Eerie black (#1B1B1B), Smoky black (#100C08), and Shadow (#8A795D).

Artworks Featuring Bistre & Drab dark brown

Still Life with Fruit palette card
Still Life with Fruit
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1882
Roses in a Champagne Glass palette card
Roses in a Champagne Glass
Edouard Manet · 1882
Rinaldo and Armida palette card
Rinaldo and Armida
Francois Boucher
Portrait of Madame Recamier palette card
Portrait of Madame Recamier
François Gérard · 1805
Pastoral Scene at Sunset palette card
Pastoral Scene at Sunset
Granville Redmond
A Bath, Woman Bathing Her Feet palette card
A Bath, Woman Bathing Her Feet
Jean-Leon Gerome

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Bistre & Drab dark brown

6 master palettes where Bistre and Drab dark brown appear together most prominently.

Classicism Palette 15 - Penumbral Bister

Classicism

41.2% Bistre · 21.8% Drab dark brown

Adolph Tidemand Palette 5 - Penumbral Bister

Adolph Tidemand

61.1% Bistre · 11.6% Drab dark brown

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Palette 6 - Penumbral Bister

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

20.1% Bistre · 30.7% Drab dark brown

Francisco de Zurbaran Palette 6 - Penumbral Bister

Francisco de Zurbaran

30.0% Bistre · 19.3% Drab dark brown

Felix Schlesinger Palette 2 - Penumbral Bister

Felix Schlesinger

40.8% Bistre · 13.9% Drab dark brown

James Barry Palette 2 - Penumbral Bister

James Barry

33.3% Bistre · 16.9% Drab dark brown

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