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Paint colors for your home, inside and out

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Painting Palettes

Room palettes measured from public-domain paintings: real colors, light reflectance, paint ideas and room schemes.

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child Léon Bonnat, 1869–70 Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher) Édouard Manet, 1865–67 A Mexican Vaquero Frederic Remington, 1890 Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée, 1761–1835) Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1783 Pietà Juan de Valdés Leal, ca. 1657–60 Arab Warrior Horace Vernet, ca. 1817–22 Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) French Painter The Parable of the Mote and the Beam Domenico Fetti, ca. 1619 Flora and Zephyr Jacob de Wit, 1743 The Family of Mr. Westphal in the Conservatory Eduard Gaertner, 1836
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Light & Pigment

Paint color guides for real rooms and real light. Colors on screen differ from paint on a wall, so always test a sample.

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