Color one

Café noir

#4B3621

Color two

Slate gray

#708090

Café noir (#4B3621) and Slate gray (#708090) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Francesco Francia, Emil Karl Rau, and Georg Heinrich Crola and the Romanticism tradition. Painters typically deployed café noir at an average of 18% of the canvas, with slate gray at 11%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Raisin black (#242124), Eerie black (#1B1B1B), and Khaki (#C3B091).

Artworks Featuring Café noir & Slate gray

Rocky Seashore palette card
Rocky Seashore
Gustave Courbet · 1865
Green River, Wyoming palette card
Green River, Wyoming
Thomas Moran · 1878
Setting sun in Biarritz palette card
Setting sun in Biarritz
Joaquín Sorolla · 1906
Icebergs palette card
Icebergs
William Bradford · 1883
Girl Streched out on the Grass palette card
Girl Streched out on the Grass
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1890
Lake Lucerne palette card
Lake Lucerne
Alexandre Calame · 1853

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Café noir & Slate gray

6 master palettes where Café noir and Slate gray appear together most prominently.

Francesco Francia Palette 4 - Shadowed Bister

Francesco Francia

19.6% Café noir · 15.8% Slate gray

Emil Karl Rau Palette 2 - Shadowed Bister

Emil Karl Rau

14.3% Café noir · 13.8% Slate gray

Georg Heinrich Crola Palette 1 - Shadowed Sienna

Georg Heinrich Crola

20.1% Café noir · 8.5% Slate gray

Gabriel Metsu Palette 7 - Tenebrous Bister

Gabriel Metsu

29.0% Café noir · 5.2% Slate gray

still life Palette 24 - Muted Caramel

still life

15.1% Café noir · 9.8% Slate gray

William Dyce Palette 3 - Muted Tawny

William Dyce

12.0% Café noir · 11.2% Slate gray

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