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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Saint Francis in Ecstasy Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto), ca. 1650 The Deer Gustave Courbet, ca. 1865 Florinda Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1853 Pallas Athena and the Herdsman's Dogs Briton Riviere, 1876 Halt of Caravans at the Wells of Saba (Beersheba) in the Desert South of Hebron Charles de Coubertin, 1850 Saint John the Evangelist Causes a Pagan Temple to Collapse Francescuccio Ghissi (Francesco di Cecco Ghissi), ca. 1370 Landscape with the Flight into Egypt Aelbert Cuyp, ca. 1650 Portrait of a Woman Cornelis de Vos Cephalus and Procris Godfried Schalcken, probably 1680s Portrait of a Man Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), 1632
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