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Yellow Dancers (In the Wings)

Three light-skinned, dark-haired ballerinas, painted in muted tones, wear off-the-shoulder yellow leotards and tutus as they huddle near each other. One adjusts her costume, while one holds her hands clasped above her head. At left is a painted screen with four pairs of feet visible underneath.

Yellow Dancers (In the Wings)

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1874–76

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Palette

Sepia
53% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1

Dark chocolate
21% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.9:1

Bronze
18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

Pine
5% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.4:1

Olive
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Caramel
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1

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: 1874–76
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 73.5 × 59.5 cm (28 15/16 × 23 7/16 in.); Framed: 91.5 × 78.2 × 7 cm (36 × 30 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Flowers · Music and dance · Work and rural life
Main colour: Brown · lightness 32, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Palmer, Mrs. Bertha P. Thorne, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, and Mrs. Rose M. Palmer. 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