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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

Woman with a Cup of Coffee palette card
Woman with a Cup of Coffee
Edouard Vuillard · 1895
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami (The Arnolfini Marriage) (detail) palette card
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami (The Arnolfini Marriage) (detail)
Jan van Eyck · 1434
Chrysanthemums in a Chinese Vase palette card
Chrysanthemums in a Chinese Vase
Henri Matisse · 1902
Scene palette card
Scene
Paul Serusier · 1912
Portrait of Jean Renoir (Child with a Hoop) palette card
Portrait of Jean Renoir (Child with a Hoop)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1898
Hamburg, Picnic palette card
Hamburg, Picnic
Pierre Bonnard · 1908

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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