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Burnt umber

#8A3324

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Burnt umber (#8A3324) is a deep warm shade that appears across 19 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Edouard Vuillard, Jan van Eyck, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and the Romanticism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Eerie black (#1B1B1B), Khaki (#C3B091), and Metallic Sunburst (#9C7C38). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in chord, reads as a unified warm palette, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

The Model palette card
The Model
John Singer Sargent · 1876
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian palette card
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
Odilon Redon · 1910
Vase of Flowers palette card
Vase of Flowers
Odilon Redon
Rose and tulip palette card
Rose and tulip
Edouard Manet · 1882
Portrait of Rene-Hillaire De Gas palette card
Portrait of Rene-Hillaire De Gas
Edgar Degas · 1857
The Embroidered Green Blouse palette card
The Embroidered Green Blouse
Henri Matisse · 1936

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Burnt umber

6 palettes where Burnt umber appears prominently — one per artist.

Edouard Vuillard Palette 8 - Shadowed Rust

Edouard Vuillard

45.0% Burnt umber

Intimism Palette 5 - Shadowed Caramel

Intimism

34.4% Burnt umber

Jan van Eyck Palette 5 - Muted Caramel

Jan van Eyck

34.1% Burnt umber

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Palette 5 - Muted Caramel

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

23.3% Burnt umber

Owen Jones Palette 5 - Muted Gamboge

Owen Jones

20.3% Burnt umber

Vadym Meller Palette 2 - Muted Gamboge

Vadym Meller

19.6% Burnt umber

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