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Black Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Lute Player Valentin de Boulogne, ca. 1625–26 Portrait of a Man in Profile Italian Painter Portrait of a Man Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino), shortly after 1497 A Couple in an Interior with a Fortune-Teller Jacob Duck, ca. 1632–33 Majas on a Balcony Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), ca. 1800–1810 A Friendly Warning Thomas Hicks, 1881–90 Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages Paris Bordon Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904) Carolus-Duran (Charles-Auguste-Emile Durant), 1861 The Coronation of the Virgin Annibale Carracci, after 1595 The Finding of Moses Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), 1560s?
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