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Black Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels François Boucher, 1765 The Death of Socrates Jacques Louis David, 1787 Tobias and the Angel Davide Ghirlandaio (David Bigordi), ca. 1479 Young Girl in a Pink-and-Black Hat Auguste Renoir, ca. 1891 The Arab Sage German Painter Imaginary View with a Tomb by the Lagoon Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), early 1740s Portrait of a Woman of the Slosgin Family of Cologne Barthel Bruyn the Younger, 1557 Vanitas Still Life Jacques de Gheyn II, 1603 Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland Hans Süss von Kulmbach, ca. 1508 Portrait of a Man Johannes Verspronck, 1645
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