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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli Simon Denis, ca. 1786–97 A Shaded Avenue Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1775 Portrait of a Man Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) Young Mother Gazing at Her Child William Bouguereau, 1871 Cow in a Barn Camille Corot A Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall Kerstiaen de Keuninck, ca. 1600 Still Life with Apples and Pitcher Camille Pissarro, 1872 Troops on the March Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, ca. 1725 Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848) Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1789 Guardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter David Teniers the Younger, ca. 1645–47
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