Color one

Café noir

#4B3621

Color two

Drab dark brown

#4A412A

Café noir (#4B3621) and Drab dark brown (#4A412A) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Michael Wutky, Jan Miense Molenaer, and Adolf Eberle and the Rococo tradition. Painters typically deployed café noir at an average of 32% of the canvas, with drab dark brown at 17%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Eerie black (#1B1B1B), Shadow (#8A795D), and Coyote brown (#81613C).

Artworks Featuring Café noir & Drab dark brown

Ice Dwellers Watching the Invaders palette card
Ice Dwellers Watching the Invaders
William Bradford · 1879
The 'Panther' among the Icebergs in Melville Bay palette card
The 'Panther' among the Icebergs in Melville Bay
William Bradford · 1874
Rue Quesnoy, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme palette card
Rue Quesnoy, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme
Edgar Degas · 1895
Black Butte, Mount Shasta palette card
Black Butte, Mount Shasta
Thomas Hill
Egyptian Juggler palette card
Egyptian Juggler
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · 1870
Au Crépuscule palette card
Au Crépuscule
Paul Émile Chabas · 1905

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Café noir & Drab dark brown

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

Michael Wutky Palette 5 - Penumbral Bister

Michael Wutky

19.6% Café noir · 26.7% Drab dark brown

Jan Miense Molenaer Palette 6 - Tenebrous Bister

Jan Miense Molenaer

32.4% Café noir · 15.6% Drab dark brown

Adolf Eberle Palette 1 - Shadowed Bister

Adolf Eberle

25.2% Café noir · 19.9% Drab dark brown

Anne Vallayer-Coster Palette 4 - Penumbral Terracotta

Anne Vallayer-Coster

24.6% Café noir · 18.2% Drab dark brown

Adolph Tidemand Palette 5 - Penumbral Bister

Adolph Tidemand

61.1% Café noir · 7.0% Drab dark brown

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Palette 6 - Penumbral Bister

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

30.7% Café noir · 13.7% Drab dark brown

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