Color one

Dim gray

#696969

Color two

Shadow

#8A795D

Dim gray (#696969) and Shadow (#8A795D) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Carl Gustaf Hellqvist, Giuseppe Tivoli, and Gustave Loiseau and the Academic Art tradition. Painters typically deployed dim gray at an average of 23% of the canvas, with shadow at 13%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Khaki (#C3B091), Raisin black (#242124), and Spanish gray (#989898).

Artworks Featuring Dim gray & Shadow

Landscape (after Corot) palette card
Landscape (after Corot)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1898
The Beach at Saint Mammès palette card
The Beach at Saint Mammès
Alfred Sisley · 1884
An Ox Drawn Cart on the Shore and a Swimmer in the Shallows palette card
An Ox Drawn Cart on the Shore and a Swimmer in the Shallows
Ivan Aivazovsky
Self-portrait with a bouquet of flowers palette card
Self-portrait with a bouquet of flowers
Oleksa Novakivskyi · 1933
View of Tiflis palette card
View of Tiflis
Ivan Aivazovsky · 1869
Woman with a Monkey palette card
Woman with a Monkey
Georges Seurat · 1884

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Dim gray & Shadow

6 master palettes where Dim gray and Shadow appear together most prominently.

Carl Gustaf Hellqvist Palette 3 - Veiled Parchment

Carl Gustaf Hellqvist

32.2% Dim gray · 12.4% Shadow

Giuseppe Tivoli Master Palette - Shadowed Tawny

Giuseppe Tivoli

20.0% Dim gray · 15.0% Shadow

Gustave Loiseau Palette 16 - Veiled Parchment

Gustave Loiseau

13.4% Dim gray · 19.3% Shadow

Ivan Aivazovsky Palette 13 - Veiled Vellum

Ivan Aivazovsky

21.2% Dim gray · 11.9% Shadow

James Taylor Harwood Palette 4 - Dimmed Vellum

James Taylor Harwood

32.3% Dim gray · 7.5% Shadow

Academicism Palette 12 - Veiled Tawny

Academicism

20.6% Dim gray · 10.8% Shadow

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