Oxblood (#4A0000) is a very dark warm shade that appears across 7 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Gustave Dore, Théodore Géricault, and Henri-Pierre Picou and the Romanticism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Rich black (#010203), Khaki (#C3B091), and Bone (#E3DAC9). The combination forms a cinematic, smoldering chord, reads as a unified warm palette, with a sharp light/dark contrast that lets the lighter companions read as highlights.
