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Spanish bistre

#807532

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Spanish bistre (#807532) is a deep warm shade that appears across 20+ master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Johannes Christian Deiker, and Gerard Terborch and the Realism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Eerie black (#1B1B1B), Bistre (#3D2B1F), and Coyote brown (#81613C). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in chord, built on closely related hues, reads as a unified warm palette, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Man Painting his Boat palette card
Man Painting his Boat
Georges Seurat · 1883
The Pearl of the Cloud, from The Kingdom of the Pearl palette card
The Pearl of the Cloud, from The Kingdom of the Pearl
Edmund Dulac
Vase with Japanese Warrior palette card
Vase with Japanese Warrior
Odilon Redon · 1905
Helene Rouart (Mme. Marin) palette card
Helene Rouart (Mme. Marin)
Edgar Degas · 1886
Apples in bowl palette card
Apples in bowl
Paul Gauguin · 1888
Enchanted Pool palette card
Enchanted Pool
Edward Henry Potthast

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Spanish bistre

6 palettes where Spanish bistre appears prominently — one per artist.

Willem Cornelisz Duyster Palette 2 - Penumbral Caramel

Willem Cornelisz Duyster

34.2% Spanish bistre

Johannes Christian Deiker Palette 3 - Penumbral Caramel

Johannes Christian Deiker

27.9% Spanish bistre

Gerard Terborch Palette 7 - Penumbral Weld

Gerard Terborch

24.0% Spanish bistre

Ludvig Kabell Master Palette - Veiled Tawny

Ludvig Kabell

22.5% Spanish bistre

Pieter Claesz Palette 5 - Penumbral Caramel

Pieter Claesz

22.5% Spanish bistre

Gustaf Lundberg Palette 2 - Soft Apricot

Gustaf Lundberg

22.4% Spanish bistre

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