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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1764 A Couple in an Interior with a Fortune-Teller Jacob Duck, ca. 1632–33 Joan of Arc Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879 Portrait of a Woman Italian (Florentine) Painter (possibly Jacopo Zucchi, Florence 1541–1590 Rome), mid-16th century Peasants Dancing and Feasting David Teniers the Younger, ca. 1660 Majas on a Balcony Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), ca. 1800–1810 Portrait of a Young Woman Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo), ca. 1490–1500 Stoke-by-Nayland John Constable, ca. 1810–11 A Hunting Scene Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio), ca. 1494–1500 After the Hunt Gustave Courbet, ca. 1859
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