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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys

A brown-toned image of a group of scantily clad young women at left, one holding out her arm toward a group of naked young men standing at right.

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · c. 1860

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Palette

Tan
33% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

Bronze
26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Parchment
23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.0:1

Fawn
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1

Putty
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1

Olive brown
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Date: c. 1860
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 97.4 × 140 cm (38 5/16 × 55 1/8 in.); Framed: 130.2 × 162.6 × 11.8 cm (51 1/4 × 64 × 4 5/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 61, colourfulness 26

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules