Color one

Sepia

#704214

Color two

Smoky black

#100C08

Sepia (#704214) and Smoky black (#100C08) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Luis de Morales, Vicente López Portaña, and August Jernberg and the Baroque tradition. Painters typically deployed sepia at an average of 33% of the canvas, with smoky black at 11%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608), Bistre (#3D2B1F), and Metallic Sunburst (#9C7C38).

Artworks Featuring Sepia & Smoky black

The Ponte Vecchio, Florence palette card
The Ponte Vecchio, Florence
William Holman Hunt · 1867
The Little Potato Peeler palette card
The Little Potato Peeler
Albrecht Anker · 1886
The Tambourine Player palette card
The Tambourine Player
John William Godward · 1909
Passage gue palette card
Passage gue
William-Adolphe Bouguereau · 1869
Crossing the Stream palette card
Crossing the Stream
William-Adolphe Bouguereau · 1903
The Crossing of the Ford palette card
The Crossing of the Ford
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Sepia & Smoky black

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

Luis de Morales Palette 3 - Nocturnal Bister

Luis de Morales

45.9% Sepia · 12.2% Smoky black

Vicente López Portaña Palette 4 - Tenebrous Bister

Vicente López Portaña

41.6% Sepia · 9.2% Smoky black

August Jernberg Palette 3 - Tenebrous Umber

August Jernberg

31.8% Sepia · 9.9% Smoky black

Bartholomeo Bettera Palette 1 - Muted Gamboge

Bartholomeo Bettera

24.9% Sepia · 11.6% Smoky black

Ambrosius Bosschaert the elder Palette 2 - Nocturnal Umber

Ambrosius Bosschaert the elder

35.0% Sepia · 8.1% Smoky black

Neo-Byzantine Palette 5 - Penumbral Tawny

Neo-Byzantine

21.4% Sepia · 12.5% Smoky black

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