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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

The Crucifixion Ugolino da Siena, ca. 1315–20 Woman Combing Her Hair Edgar Degas, ca. 1888–90 John Julius Angerstein (1736–1823) Sir Thomas Lawrence Alexander the Great Rescued from the River Cydnus Pietro Testa, ca. 1650 Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun Nicolas Poussin, 1658 A Partridge and Small Game Birds Jan Fyt, 1650s The Empress Elizabeth of Russia (1709–1762) on Horseback, Attended by a Page Georg Christoph Grooth, after 1743–49 A Village in a Valley Théodore Rousseau, late 1820s Madonna and Child Master of the Magdalen, ca. 1280 Susanna and the Elders Peter Paul Rubens
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