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Full-body sketch of a mustached man wearing a jockey's cap. His hands grasp an unseen horse's reins, and his legs are only lightly rendered.

Jockey

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1866–68

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Palette

Fawn
 65% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1
Putty
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.5:1
Mushroom
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1
Khaki
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Biscuit
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1

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
1866–68
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Graphite with stumping on tan wove paper
Size
32.7 × 24.7 cm (12 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 21

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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