Cornflower blue (#6495ED) is a mid-tone cool shade that appears across 5 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Samuel Peploe, Jørgen Sonne, and Clarence Gagnon and the Post-Impressionism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Raisin black (#242124), Timberwolf (#DBD7D2), and Persian red (#CC3333). The combination forms a steady, atmospheric chord, built on a split-complementary spread, pairs with restrained, near-neutral companions that let the source carry the chord, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.
