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A work made of charcoal with stumping, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wood-pulp laminate board.

Dancer Resting with a Fan

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1890/95

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Palette

Pearl grey
 68% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.9:1
Silver
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1
Ash
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Chalk
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.3:1
Pewter
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Smoke
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

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
1890/95
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Charcoal with stumping, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wood-pulp laminate board
Size
50.5 × 44.8 cm (19 15/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 79, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton. 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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