Color one

Dark brown

#654321

Color two

Smoky black

#100C08

Dark brown (#654321) and Smoky black (#100C08) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of William H. Johnson, Paulus Moreelse, and John Souch and the Baroque tradition. Painters typically deployed dark brown at an average of 32% of the canvas, with smoky black at 20%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Bistre (#3D2B1F), Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608), and Olive Drab (#3C341F).

Artworks Featuring Dark brown & Smoky black

Napoleon Bonaparte in his Study at the Tuileries palette card
Napoleon Bonaparte in his Study at the Tuileries
Jacques-Louis David · 1812
General Lucius Fairchild palette card
General Lucius Fairchild
John Singer Sargent · 1887
Unity and Justice palette card
Unity and Justice
Theodoor van Thulden
Cassandra Begging Minerva for Vengeance on Ajax palette card
Cassandra Begging Minerva for Vengeance on Ajax
Jérôme-Martin Langlois · 1810
Portrait of Caspar Goodrich palette card
Portrait of Caspar Goodrich
John Singer Sargent · 1887
Interior of the Mosque at Cordoba palette card
Interior of the Mosque at Cordoba
Edwin Lord Weeks · 1880

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Dark brown & Smoky black

6 master palettes where Dark brown and Smoky black appear together most prominently.

Paulus Moreelse Palette 2 - Tenebrous Bister

Paulus Moreelse

25.3% Dark brown · 30.8% Smoky black

William H. Johnson Palette 1 - Tenebrous Bister

William H. Johnson

34.2% Dark brown · 20.6% Smoky black

William H. Johnson Master Palette - Tenebrous Bister

William H. Johnson

34.2% Dark brown · 20.6% Smoky black

John Souch Palette 1 - Penumbral Bister

John Souch

26.7% Dark brown · 21.0% Smoky black

Marcin Zaleski Palette 4 - Nocturnal Terracotta

Marcin Zaleski

30.6% Dark brown · 14.9% Smoky black

Bengt Nordenberg Palette 4 - Nocturnal Bister

Bengt Nordenberg

42.3% Dark brown · 10.7% Smoky black

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