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Black Palettes from Famous Paintings

Paintings where black is one of the main colors, turned into room palettes.

Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth Martin Johnson Heade, 1885–95 For Sunday's Dinner William Michael Harnett, 1888 Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise Thomas Birch, 1806–12 Portrait of a Venetian Senator Catena (Vincenzo di Biagio), ca. 1525 Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486) Rogier van der Weyden, ca. 1460 A Young Woman as a Shepherdess Govert Flinck Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1823 Portrait of a Woman Quinten Massys, ca. 1520 The Stolen Kiss Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1760 Putti with a Medallion Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen
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