Tenebrism is one of the four winners produced by Immortal Verse (Pivotal), champion 3-year-old filly in England and a Group 1 winner in England and France, whose wins include the Gr.1 Coronation S. and the Gr.1 Prix Jacques le Marois. Tenebrism's 2-year-old half-sister Statuette (Justify) has won the Gr.2 Airlie Stud S., and the mare is also the dam of the winners Battle For Glory and Grand Deed (both by War Front).

Second dam Side Of Paradise (Sadler's Wells) won the Listed Prix La Camargo, was second in the Gr.3 Prix Fille de l'Air and has produced five winners. Her daughter Go Lovely Rose (Pivotal), a full-sister to Immortal Verse, has produced four black-type performers: Roseman (Kingman), a Listed winner, second in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II S. and now a sire, Baradar (Muhaarar), third in the Gr.1 Futurity Trophy, and the Group 3-placed Game Zone (Hurricane Run) and Chaussons Roses (New Approach). Side Of Paradise is a full-sister to Flowerdrum, winner of the Listed Rose Bowl S.

Third dam Mill Princess (Mill Reef) was a winner and is a half-sister to Irish Ball (Baldric), winner of the Gr.1 Irish Derby. She is the dam of Last Tycoon (Try My Best), a triple Group 1 winner whose victories include the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Mile, and a champion sire, of Astronef (Be My Guest), a Group 2 winner who also took the Gr.3 Goldene Peitsche and became a sire, and of The Perfect Life (Try My Best), winner of the Gr.3 Prix du Bois. The Perfect Life produced the Group 3 winner Rabah and is the grandam of Ice Queen, winner of the Gr.3 Noblesse S. and second in the Gr.1 Irish Oaks.

Mill Princess's Listed-placed daughter Save Me The Waltz (Kings Lake) produced Sense of Style (Thunder Gulch), winner of the Grade 1 Matron S., and Valentine Waltz (Be My Guest), winner of the Gr.1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. She is also the grandam of the Group 3 winners Steele Tango, who took the Gr.3 Darley S., Dyna Waltz and Britt's Best, and of Only A Pleasure, a Listed winner in France. Another daughter, Tender Is Thenight (Barathea), is the dam of Tie Black, winner of the Gr.1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, and the Listed winner Besotted. Zelda (Caerleon) produced the top sprinter Zipping (Zafonic), winner of the Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin and twice Group 1-placed, and the Group 3 winners Nipping and Zelding. She is the grandam of Beauty Is Truth (Pivotal), winner of the Gr.2 Prix du Gros-Chene, and the third dam of the Group 1 winners Hermosa, Hydrangea and The United States, all by Galileo. Mill Princess is also a half-sister to the dam of the Classic winners and sires Assert and Bikala and of the Group 1 winner Eurobird.