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Painting Palettes

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

A Musician and His Daughter Thomas de Keyser, 1629 Portrait of a Man in Profile Italian Painter Lute Player Valentin de Boulogne, ca. 1625–26 Study of a Girl in Red Benedetto Luti, 1717 A Couple in an Interior with a Fortune-Teller Jacob Duck, ca. 1632–33 Portrait of a Man Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino), shortly after 1497 Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1764 Joan of Arc Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879 Peasants Dancing and Feasting David Teniers the Younger, ca. 1660 Portrait of a Woman Italian (Florentine) Painter (possibly Jacopo Zucchi, Florence 1541–1590 Rome), mid-16th century
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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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