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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

Mountain View from High Field palette card
Mountain View from High Field
Willard Metcalf · 1877
Landscape palette card
Landscape
Theodore Rousseau · 1842
Morning Reflections palette card
Morning Reflections
Robert Lewis Reid · 1910
Rostov Veliky. Entrance to Kremlin. palette card
Rostov Veliky. Entrance to Kremlin.
Nicholas Roerich · 1903
Marguerite palette card
Marguerite
Henri Matisse · 1906
Four Seasons (Picou, Gérôme, Boulanger, Hamon) palette card
Four Seasons (Picou, Gérôme, Boulanger, Hamon)
Henri-Pierre Picou · 1850

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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