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Purple Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect Claude Monet, 1903 The Massacre of the Innocents Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio), ca. 1470 A Huntsman and a Peasant Woman by the Isar River with a View of Munich Wilhelm von Kobell, 1823 Charing Cross Bridge, London Claude Monet, 1901 Chrysanthemums Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881–82 Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884" Georges Seurat, 1884 Madame Léon Clapisson Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883 Portrait of a Woman Cornelis de Vos Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara), ca. 1420–30 Alfred Sisley Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876
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