Color one

Seal brown

#59260B

Color two

Smoky black

#100C08

Seal brown (#59260B) and Smoky black (#100C08) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Paul Ranson, Christen Dalsgaard, and Thomas Lawrence and the Romanticism tradition. Painters typically deployed seal brown at an average of 30% of the canvas, with smoky black at 19%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608), Café noir (#4B3621), and Dark sienna (#3C1414).

Artworks Featuring Seal brown & Smoky black

The Ponte Vecchio, Florence palette card
The Ponte Vecchio, Florence
William Holman Hunt · 1867
Pond in Moonlight palette card
Pond in Moonlight
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Rebecca at the Well palette card
Rebecca at the Well
Paolo Veronese · 1580
Cassandra Begging Minerva for Vengeance on Ajax palette card
Cassandra Begging Minerva for Vengeance on Ajax
Jérôme-Martin Langlois · 1810
The Four Evangelists palette card
The Four Evangelists
Jacob Jordaens · 1617
Venus and Vulcan palette card
Venus and Vulcan
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1758

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Seal brown & Smoky black

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

Paul Ranson Palette 9 - Nocturnal Umber

Paul Ranson

34.1% Seal brown · 16.2% Smoky black

Christen Dalsgaard Palette 2 - Nocturnal Umber

Christen Dalsgaard

25.3% Seal brown · 20.1% Smoky black

Thomas Lawrence Palette 9 - Nocturnal Umber

Thomas Lawrence

44.6% Seal brown · 11.4% Smoky black

Camillo Boccaccino Palette 5 - Nocturnal Terracotta

Camillo Boccaccino

40.5% Seal brown · 12.3% Smoky black

Petrus van Schendel Palette 8 - Nocturnal Terracotta

Petrus van Schendel

18.6% Seal brown · 26.2% Smoky black

John Ruskin Palette 10 - Nocturnal Terracotta

John Ruskin

17.4% Seal brown · 28.0% Smoky black

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