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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Portrait of Mme Lisle and Mme Loubens

Portrait of Mme Lisle and Mme Loubens

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · c. 1867

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Palette

Dark chocolate
54% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.0:1

Walnut
19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.4:1

Cinnamon
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1

Sand
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.2:1

Raw umber
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1

Khaki
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

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: c. 1867
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 84 × 96.6 cm (33 1/16 × 38 in.); Framed: 101.6 × 115 × 8 cm (40 × 45 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Flowers · Interiors
Main colour: Brown · lightness 24, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Annie Laurie Ryerson in memory of Joseph Turner Ryerson. 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