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A work made of charcoal with stumping, heightened with white and yellow pastel with stumping, on blue laid paper ruled with charcoal.

Dancer Bending Forward

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1874/79

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Palette

Sage
 74% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.8:1
Smoke
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Iron
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1
Ivory
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 14.1:1
Charcoal
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.5:1
Celadon
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.1:1

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
1874/79
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Charcoal with stumping, heightened with white and yellow pastel with stumping, on blue laid paper ruled with charcoal
Size
46.2 × 30.4 cm (18 1/4 × 12 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Green · lightness 56, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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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