Color one

English violet

#563C5C

Color two

Saddle brown

#8B4513

English violet (#563C5C) and Saddle brown (#8B4513) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Thomas Dewing, and Theo van Rysselberghe and the Tonalism tradition. Painters typically deployed english violet at an average of 7% of the canvas, with saddle brown at 15%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Beaver (#9F8170), Goldenrod (#DAA520), and Rose ebony (#674846).

Artworks Featuring English violet & Saddle brown

Flowers and Ceramic Plate palette card
Flowers and Ceramic Plate
Henri Matisse · 1911
Rocks on the breton coast palette card
Rocks on the breton coast
Paul Gauguin · 1888
Hercules palette card
Hercules
John Singer Sargent · 1921
Woman in Blue palette card
Woman in Blue
Thomas Dewing · 1920
Fruit Basket palette card
Fruit Basket
Pierre Bonnard · 1946
Profile of a Young Woman in a Hat palette card
Profile of a Young Woman in a Hat
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring English violet & Saddle brown

3 master palettes where English violet and Saddle brown appear together most prominently.

Thomas Dewing Palette 7 - Shadowed Rust

Thomas Dewing

10.8% English violet · 54.7% Saddle brown

Tonalism Palette 9 - Shadowed Rust

Tonalism

10.2% English violet · 31.6% Saddle brown

Theo van Rysselberghe Palette 12 - Dimmed Parchment

Theo van Rysselberghe

20.1% English violet · 5.6% Saddle brown

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