Color one

Prussian blue

#003153

Color two

Smoky black

#100C08

Prussian blue (#003153) and Smoky black (#100C08) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Carl Marcus Tuscher, Rafael Tegeo, and Henri Lehmann and the Rococo tradition. Painters typically deployed prussian blue at an average of 26% of the canvas, with smoky black at 6%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608), Beaver (#9F8170), and Khaki (#C3B091).

Artworks Featuring Prussian blue & Smoky black

The Suitor palette card
The Suitor
Eugene de Blaas · 1887
Daryal pass. Moonlight Night palette card
Daryal pass. Moonlight Night
Arkhyp Kuindzhi · 1895
Darial Gorge. Moon night palette card
Darial Gorge. Moon night
Ivan Aivazovsky · 1868
Good Adventure palette card
Good Adventure
Henri-Pierre Picou · 1872
The Pearls of Aphrodite, palette card
The Pearls of Aphrodite,
Herbert James Draper · 1907
Calm and Free (Maine Coast) palette card
Calm and Free (Maine Coast)
Rockwell Kent · 1909

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Prussian blue & Smoky black

6 master palettes where Prussian blue and Smoky black appear together most prominently.

Carl Marcus Tuscher Palette 1 - Nocturnal Bister

Carl Marcus Tuscher

28.3% Prussian blue · 8.1% Smoky black

Carl Marcus Tuscher Master Palette - Nocturnal Bister

Carl Marcus Tuscher

28.3% Prussian blue · 8.1% Smoky black

Rafael Tegeo Palette 4 - Shadowed Ash

Rafael Tegeo

19.4% Prussian blue · 8.1% Smoky black

Henri Lehmann Palette 5 - Somber Stone

Henri Lehmann

19.6% Prussian blue · 6.3% Smoky black

Henry Pickering Palette 3 - Tenebrous Cinder

Henry Pickering

44.0% Prussian blue · 2.1% Smoky black

Francesco Stringa Palette 1 - Shadowed Bister

Francesco Stringa

15.6% Prussian blue · 5.8% Smoky black

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