Color one

Café noir

#4B3621

Color two

Light periwinkle

#C5CBE1

Café noir (#4B3621) and Light periwinkle (#C5CBE1) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Cornelis Springer, Leopold Kupelwieser, and Herbert James Draper and the Romanticism tradition. Painters typically deployed café noir at an average of 14% of the canvas, with light periwinkle at 9%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Eerie black (#1B1B1B), Raw umber (#826644), and Shadow (#8A795D).

Artworks Featuring Café noir & Light periwinkle

Meadow with Brook, Medfield, Massachusetts palette card
Meadow with Brook, Medfield, Massachusetts
Robert Lewis Reid · 1909
Morning, Clear Lake palette card
Morning, Clear Lake
Thomas Hill · 1876
Green Sea, Iona palette card
Green Sea, Iona
Samuel Peploe · 1920
Fishing the Merced River palette card
Fishing the Merced River
Thomas Hill · 1892
Portrait of an Infant palette card
Portrait of an Infant
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1881
The Chemin de By through Woods at Rouches Courtaut, St. Martin s, Summer palette card
The Chemin de By through Woods at Rouches Courtaut, St. Martin s, Summer
Alfred Sisley · 1881

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Café noir & Light periwinkle

6 master palettes where Café noir and Light periwinkle appear together most prominently.

Classicism Palette 3 - Muted Parchment

Classicism

17.5% Café noir · 10.1% Light periwinkle

Cornelis Springer Palette 1 - Muted Parchment

Cornelis Springer

14.8% Café noir · 11.7% Light periwinkle

Leopold Kupelwieser Master Palette - Muted Gamboge

Leopold Kupelwieser

15.0% Café noir · 10.0% Light periwinkle

Herbert James Draper Palette 8 - Shadowed Ash

Herbert James Draper

10.8% Café noir · 9.4% Light periwinkle

Il Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) Palette 7 - Veiled Gamboge

Il Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

10.6% Café noir · 9.2% Light periwinkle

Rosa Bonheur Palette 5 - Penumbral Tawny

Rosa Bonheur

15.7% Café noir · 4.6% Light periwinkle

Choose another color