Color one

Café noir

#4B3621

Color two

Smoky black

#100C08

Café noir (#4B3621) and Smoky black (#100C08) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Roman Ribera Cirera, Antonio Maria Esquivel, and John Greenhill and the Baroque tradition. Painters typically deployed café noir at an average of 33% of the canvas, with smoky black at 27%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608), Coyote brown (#81613C), and Khaki (#C3B091).

Artworks Featuring Café noir & Smoky black

Reading the newspaper palette card
Reading the newspaper
Felix Schlesinger
The Unseen Suitor palette card
The Unseen Suitor
Eugene de Blaas · 1898
Sir Frank Swettenham palette card
Sir Frank Swettenham
John Singer Sargent · 1904
Italian piper palette card
Italian piper
William-Adolphe Bouguereau · 1874
Louis XIV and Molière palette card
Louis XIV and Molière
Jean-Leon Gerome · 1862
St Francis in Ecstasy palette card
St Francis in Ecstasy
Paolo Veronese · 1582

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Café noir & Smoky black

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

Roman Ribera Cirera Palette 5 - Nocturnal Bister

Roman Ribera Cirera

38.8% Café noir · 26.3% Smoky black

Antonio Maria Esquivel Palette 3 - Abyssal Bister

Antonio Maria Esquivel

33.9% Café noir · 30.1% Smoky black

John Greenhill Palette 2 - Tenebrous Bister

John Greenhill

24.3% Café noir · 41.0% Smoky black

Andrea Solario Palette 2 - Nocturnal Bister

Andrea Solario

36.4% Café noir · 24.3% Smoky black

Alexis Van Hamme Palette 4 - Abyssal Bister

Alexis Van Hamme

35.8% Café noir · 19.4% Smoky black

Francis Cleyn Palette 3 - Nocturnal Bister

Francis Cleyn

27.8% Café noir · 22.2% Smoky black

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