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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 Enthroned Master of the Magdalen Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries Bicci di Lorenzo, 1433–35 The Musician Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1662 Putti Harvesting Wheat Piat Joseph Sauvage The Entombment Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino), 1554 Landscape with a Cave Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny Study for a Portrait of a Woman Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes), 1670s Study of a Girl in Red Benedetto Luti, 1717 Lute Player Valentin de Boulogne, ca. 1625–26 Portrait of a Man in Profile Italian Painter
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Light & Pigment

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