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Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin)

A work made of distemper, metallic paint, and pastel, on canvas.

Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin)

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1879

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Palette

Pale stone
30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.5:1

Olive brown
18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1

Sand
17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1

Stone
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1

Taupe
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Caramel
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1

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: 1879
Type: Painting
Medium: Distemper, metallic paint, and pastel, on canvas
Size: 85.7 × 75.3 cm (33 3/4 × 29 5/8 in.); Framed: 108 × 97.8 × 6.4 cm (42 1/2 × 38 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Night and moonlight · Interiors
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 59, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Winterbotham 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