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A work made of brush with black ink, oil paint, and white gouache, on tan wove paper discolored with brown essence, laid down on cream laid board.

Four Studies of a Jockey

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1866

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Palette

Sepia
 61% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1
Raw umber
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Graphite
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Pewter
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

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
French, 1834-1917
Date
1866
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Brush with black ink, oil paint, and white gouache, on tan wove paper discolored with brown essence, laid down on cream laid board
Size
45.3 × 31.6 cm (17 7/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
Place
France
Period
Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Work and rural life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 36, colourfulness 14

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

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