Color one

Café noir

#4B3621

Color two

Rich black

#010203

Café noir (#4B3621) and Rich black (#010203) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of François-Joseph Navez, Ivan Argunov, and Nicolas Froment and the Rococo tradition. Painters typically deployed café noir at an average of 36% of the canvas, with rich black at 11%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608), Coyote brown (#81613C), and Pine green (#2A2F23).

Artworks Featuring Café noir & Rich black

St Francis in Ecstasy palette card
St Francis in Ecstasy
Paolo Veronese · 1582
Holy Family with Sts Anthony Abbot, Catherine and the Infant John the Baptist palette card
Holy Family with Sts Anthony Abbot, Catherine and the Infant John the Baptist
Paolo Veronese · 1551
Mrs. Waldo Story palette card
Mrs. Waldo Story
John Singer Sargent · 1883
Reading the newspaper palette card
Reading the newspaper
Felix Schlesinger
Tersicore palette card
Tersicore
Pasquale Celommi · 1910
Earth palette card
Earth
Giuseppe Arcimboldo · 1570

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Café noir & Rich black

6 master palettes where Café noir and Rich black appear together most prominently.

François-Joseph Navez Palette 5 - Abyssal Sienna

François-Joseph Navez

44.1% Café noir · 10.2% Rich black

Ivan Argunov Palette 5 - Nocturnal Bister

Ivan Argunov

21.9% Café noir · 16.6% Rich black

Nicolas Froment Palette 1 - Nocturnal Bister

Nicolas Froment

33.4% Café noir · 10.1% Rich black

Paul-Albert Besnard Palette 4 - Nocturnal Bister

Paul-Albert Besnard

34.6% Café noir · 9.4% Rich black

Ford Madox Brown Palette 7 - Abyssal Sienna

Ford Madox Brown

53.1% Café noir · 6.1% Rich black

Jean-Honore Fragonard Palette 10 - Tenebrous Bister

Jean-Honore Fragonard

30.2% Café noir · 10.6% Rich black

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