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Van Dyke brown

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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 Abbot Hontonx palette card
The Abbot Hontonx
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Vengeance Of The Sons Of Antar palette card
Vengeance Of The Sons Of Antar
Nasreddine Dinet · 1898
Still Life palette card
Still Life
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Milarepa's cave palette card
Milarepa's cave
Nicholas Roerich · 1931
Summer Storm palette card
Summer Storm
Alexander Helwig Wyant · 1865
Painting in the Dressing Room of the Scala Theatre, the Hague palette card
Painting in the Dressing Room of the Scala Theatre, the Hague
Isaac Israels

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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