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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

The Laundress palette card
The Laundress
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1891
Portrait of Edmond Maitre (The Reader) palette card
Portrait of Edmond Maitre (The Reader)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1871
Picnic palette card
Picnic
Maurice Prendergast · 1914
Edge of the pine forest palette card
Edge of the pine forest
Ivan Shishkin
Apples and Grapes palette card
Apples and Grapes
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1910
Mother and Child on a Breton Landscape palette card
Mother and Child on a Breton Landscape
Paul Serusier · 1890

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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