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Black Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Lukas Spielhausen Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532 Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943) Gustav Klimt, 1899 Cephalus and Procris Godfried Schalcken, probably 1680s Portrait of a Man Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), 1632 Fantastic Landscape Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765 The Actor Maximilian Korn in a Landscape Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1828 Maria Sheldon Scammon Anders Zorn, 1895 Portrait of Fred Adelbert Haywood School of William Matthew Prior, February 16, 1848 Self-Portrait George Peter Alexander Healy, 1873 Man with a Pen Jonas Welch Holman, 1827–30
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Light & Pigment

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