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Brown Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Madonna and Child Bernardino dei Conti Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801) Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782 Marie Françoise de La Cropte de St. Abre, Marquise d'Argence (born 1714) Jean Marc Nattier, 1744 Saint George Carlo Crivelli, 1472 The Two Sisters Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, 1770 The Court of the Princess Adolphe Monticelli The Virgin of the Nativity Filippino Lippi, probably ca. 1500 Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez), probably 1624 A Mosque Alberto Pasini, 1886 A Huntsman and a Peasant Woman by the Isar River with a View of Munich Wilhelm von Kobell, 1823
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