Color one

Saddle brown

#8B4513

Color two

Smoky black

#100C08

Saddle brown (#8B4513) and Smoky black (#100C08) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Frank Cadogan Cowper, Rosso Fiorentino, and Archibald Motley and the Romanticism tradition. Painters typically deployed saddle brown at an average of 26% of the canvas, with smoky black at 10%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608), Seal brown (#59260B), and Bistre (#3D2B1F).

Artworks Featuring Saddle brown & Smoky black

A Helping Hand palette card
A Helping Hand
Eugene de Blaas · 1884
Haywain (detail) palette card
Haywain (detail)
Hieronymus Bosch · 1485
Untitled palette card
Untitled
Andre Derain · 1906
Portrait palette card
Portrait
Pere Borrell del Caso
Portrait of a Woman palette card
Portrait of a Woman
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1526
Venus inebriated by a Satyr (La Nuda) palette card
Venus inebriated by a Satyr (La Nuda)
Annibale Carracci

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Saddle brown & Smoky black

6 master palettes where Saddle brown and Smoky black appear together most prominently.

Frank Cadogan Cowper Palette 3 - Shadowed Laterite

Frank Cadogan Cowper

27.3% Saddle brown · 10.7% Smoky black

Rosso Fiorentino Palette 3 - Shadowed Tawny

Rosso Fiorentino

31.6% Saddle brown · 8.0% Smoky black

Archibald Motley Palette 2 - Shadowed Bister

Archibald Motley

18.6% Saddle brown · 13.4% Smoky black

Hans Baldung Palette 5 - Shadowed Bister

Hans Baldung

34.0% Saddle brown · 7.2% Smoky black

Adolphe Piot Palette 4 - Shadowed Caramel

Adolphe Piot

20.8% Saddle brown · 11.4% Smoky black

Kitsch Palette 12 - Shadowed Tawny

Kitsch

26.7% Saddle brown · 8.5% Smoky black

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