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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Winged Figure Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1889 A Friendly Warning Thomas Hicks, 1881–90 York Harbor, Coast of Maine Martin Johnson Heade, 1877 The Three Ages of Humans Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero), ca. 1515 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 Sunrise Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), possibly 1646–47 The Finding of Moses Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), 1560s? The North Cape by Moonlight Peder Balke, 1848
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