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Van Dyke brown

#664228

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Van Dyke brown (#664228) is a deep warm shade that appears across 20+ master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Gilbert Stuart, Fyodor Rokotov, and Henri Fantin-Latour and the Romanticism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Smoky black (#100C08), Drab dark brown (#4A412A), and Rifle green (#444C38). 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 ragpicker palette card
The ragpicker
Edouard Manet · 1869
The Philosopher palette card
The Philosopher
Hubertus van Hove
Beach No. 3 palette card
Beach No. 3
Maurice Prendergast · 1913
The Ledges palette card
The Ledges
Childe Hassam · 1907
Lunia Czechowska palette card
Lunia Czechowska
Amedeo Modigliani · 1919
Song of the Viking palette card
Song of the Viking
Nicholas Roerich · 1907

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Van Dyke brown

6 palettes where Van Dyke brown appears prominently — one per artist.

Gilbert Stuart Palette 2 - Shadowed Umber

Gilbert Stuart

42.9% Van Dyke brown

Fyodor Rokotov Palette 3 - Shadowed Terracotta

Fyodor Rokotov

27.5% Van Dyke brown

Henri Fantin-Latour Palette 13 - Nocturnal Terracotta

Henri Fantin-Latour

27.3% Van Dyke brown

Classicism Palette 4 - Penumbral Caramel

Classicism

26.3% Van Dyke brown

John White Alexander Palette 3 - Shadowed Terracotta

John White Alexander

26.2% Van Dyke brown

Carl Wenig Master Palette - Penumbral Caramel

Carl Wenig

25.5% Van Dyke brown

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