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Painting Palettes

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

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 Charity Carlo Cignani, ca. 1680 The Annunciation Budapest Master
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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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