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Drab dark brown

#4A412A

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Drab dark brown (#4A412A) is a deep warm shade that appears across 20+ master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Adolph Tidemand, Stanley Spencer, and Carl Ludwig Hoffmeister and the Romanticism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Eerie black (#1B1B1B), Café noir (#4B3621), and Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in chord, built on closely related hues, reads as a unified warm palette, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Rinaldo and Armida palette card
Rinaldo and Armida
Francois Boucher
The New Bracelet palette card
The New Bracelet
Henryk Siemiradzki
Edge of the Forest palette card
Edge of the Forest
Ivan Shishkin
Dancer Posing palette card
Dancer Posing
Edgar Degas · 1878
The Inlet palette card
The Inlet
Maurice Prendergast · 1910
Forest Landscape palette card
Forest Landscape
Ivan Shishkin · 1874

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Drab dark brown

6 palettes where Drab dark brown appears prominently — one per artist.

Adolph Tidemand Palette 5 - Penumbral Bister

Adolph Tidemand

56.0% Drab dark brown

Stanley Spencer Palette 6 - Penumbral Caramel

Stanley Spencer

36.1% Drab dark brown

Carl Ludwig Hoffmeister Master Palette - Veiled Tawny

Carl Ludwig Hoffmeister

35.0% Drab dark brown

Otto Freundlich Palette 2 - Penumbral Tawny

Otto Freundlich

30.7% Drab dark brown

George Stubbs Palette 8 - Penumbral Bister

George Stubbs

30.0% Drab dark brown

Johann Friedrich Treml Master Palette - Veiled Tawny

Johann Friedrich Treml

30.0% Drab dark brown

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