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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

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 Waterfall at Mont-Dore Achille-Etna Michallon, 1818 Portrait of a Man Johannes Verspronck, 1645 The Crucifixion Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia), ca. 1400 Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), ca. 1585 Portrait of an Old Woman Jacob Backer Allegory of Avarice Jacopo Ligozzi The Two Sisters Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1769–70
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