Color one

Cambridge blue

#A3C1AD

Color two

Smoky black

#100C08

Cambridge blue (#A3C1AD) and Smoky black (#100C08) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Bernabé de Ayala, Alonzo Cano, and Julio Romero de Torres and the Baroque tradition. Painters typically deployed cambridge blue at an average of 25% of the canvas, with smoky black at 9%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Bistre (#3D2B1F), Bronze (#CD7F32), and Eggshell (#F0EAD6).

Artworks Featuring Cambridge blue & Smoky black

Morning at Laguna palette card
Morning at Laguna
Charles Reiffel · 1935
Weatherbeaten palette card
Weatherbeaten
Winslow Homer · 1894
Venice, the pier at sunset palette card
Venice, the pier at sunset
Ippolito Caffi · 1864
Yermak's conquest of Siberia palette card
Yermak's conquest of Siberia
Vasily Surikov · 1895
Hollow in the Snow palette card
Hollow in the Snow
Armand Guillaumin · 1869
Backwoods palette card
Backwoods
Ivan Shishkin · 1872

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Cambridge blue & Smoky black

6 master palettes where Cambridge blue and Smoky black appear together most prominently.

Bernabé de Ayala Palette 2 - Veiled Tawny

Bernabé de Ayala

21.5% Cambridge blue · 19.0% Smoky black

Alonzo Cano Palette 2 - Veiled Tawny

Alonzo Cano

20.7% Cambridge blue · 13.4% Smoky black

Julio Romero de Torres Palette 5 - Tenebrous Cinder

Julio Romero de Torres

49.3% Cambridge blue · 4.9% Smoky black

Eduardo Viana Palette 2 - Veiled Tawny

Eduardo Viana

18.9% Cambridge blue · 5.9% Smoky black

Patrick Henry Bruce Palette 2 - Shadowed Caramel

Patrick Henry Bruce

26.3% Cambridge blue · 3.9% Smoky black

Uemura Shoen Palette 1 - Soft Ecru

Uemura Shoen

11.1% Cambridge blue · 5.9% Smoky black

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