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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Virgin and Child in an Apse Robert Campin The Net Mender (Garnbinderen) Christian Krohg, 1879 The Home of the Heron George Inness, 1893 Portrait of a Woman Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), 1633 Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut Ancient Egyptian, Third Intermediate Period, probably Dynasty 21 (about 1069-945 BCE) Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist Orsola Maddalena Caccia, ca. 1645 Abraham Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni), ca. 1408–10 Petronella Elias (1648–1667) with a Basket of Fruit Ferdinand Bol, 1657 Christ Healing the Blind El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), ca. 1570 Still Life with a Glass and Oysters Jan Davidsz de Heem, ca. 1640
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