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Painting Palettes

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

The Swing Hubert Robert, 1777–79 A Banquet Dirck Hals, 1628 Lukas Spielhausen Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532 Saint Francis in Ecstasy Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto), ca. 1650 Gathering Wood Anton Mauve The Deer Gustave Courbet, ca. 1865 Florinda Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1853 The Hidden Brook Gustave Courbet, ca. 1873–77 In the Sun Charles-Edouard de Beaumont, 1875 Halt of Caravans at the Wells of Saba (Beersheba) in the Desert South of Hebron Charles de Coubertin, 1850
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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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