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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow Joseph Anton Koch, 1824 Nuns at Work Alessandro Magnasco Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Path Jan Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1607 Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1823 Portrait of a Woman Quinten Massys, ca. 1520 The Stolen Kiss Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1760 Putti with a Medallion Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen Charity Cesare Dandini, ca. 1630 The Birth of the Virgin Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini), 1467 Louis XV (1710–1774) as a Child Hyacinthe Rigaud, ca. 1716–24
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Light & Pigment

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