Impressionist painting of woman wearing green dress trying on hats.

The Millinery Shop

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1879-86

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Palette

Walnut
48% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.7:1

Cinnamon
25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Graphite
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1

Green earth
7% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.7:1

Olive
4% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.5:1

Fawn
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1

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: 1879-86
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 100 × 110.7 cm (39 3/8 × 43 9/16 in.); Framed: 132.1 × 142.3 × 9.6 cm (52 × 56 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Cities and streets · Work and rural life
Main colour: Brown · lightness 34, colourfulness 23

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial 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