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Olive Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

A Village in a Valley Théodore Rousseau, late 1820s Springtime Théodore Rousseau, c. 1860 Pasture in Normandy Constant Troyon, 1852 Gathering Wood Anton Mauve German Landscape with View toward a Broad Valley Fritz Petzholdt, ca. 1829–30 Portrait of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond (1610-1688) Thomas Flatman, 17th century Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst James Peale, 1790 Monsieur Tortoni baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, c. 1820 Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass Edgar Degas, ca. 1882–85 The Presentation in the Temple Alvaro Pirez, ca. 1405–15
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