Color one

Field drab

#6C541E

Color two

Smoky black

#100C08

Field drab (#6C541E) and Smoky black (#100C08) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Francesco Didioni, Agnolo Bronzino, and José María Casado del Alisal and the Romanticism tradition. Painters typically deployed field drab at an average of 33% of the canvas, with smoky black at 15%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Olive Drab (#3C341F), Bistre (#3D2B1F), and Café noir (#4B3621).

Artworks Featuring Field drab & Smoky black

Wandering Saltimbanques palette card
Wandering Saltimbanques
Honore Daumier · 1847
A Provençal Castle palette card
A Provençal Castle
Henry Herbert La Thangue
St. Margaret palette card
St. Margaret
Raphael · 1518
Moonlight palette card
Moonlight
Ralph Blakelock
The monastery of George. Cape Fiolent palette card
The monastery of George. Cape Fiolent
Ivan Aivazovsky · 1846
Moonlight, Indian Encampment palette card
Moonlight, Indian Encampment
Ralph Blakelock

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Field drab & Smoky black

6 master palettes where Field drab and Smoky black appear together most prominently.

Francesco Didioni Palette 5 - Tenebrous Terracotta

Francesco Didioni

31.4% Field drab · 29.4% Smoky black

Agnolo Bronzino Palette 7 - Shadowed Umber

Agnolo Bronzino

29.6% Field drab · 13.9% Smoky black

José María Casado del Alisal Palette 2 - Penumbral Tawny

José María Casado del Alisal

29.8% Field drab · 13.4% Smoky black

Brunel Neuville Palette 3 - Penumbral Terracotta

Brunel Neuville

27.1% Field drab · 14.1% Smoky black

Thomas Lawrence Palette 9 - Nocturnal Umber

Thomas Lawrence

44.6% Field drab · 7.9% Smoky black

William H. Johnson Palette 1 - Tenebrous Bister

William H. Johnson

34.2% Field drab · 10.3% Smoky black

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