Café Singer

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1879

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Palette

Charcoal
69% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.2:1

Olive brown
12% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.9:1

Sepia
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1

Bronze
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Raw umber
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Chestnut
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.3:1

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: Oil on canvas
Size: 53.5 × 41.8 cm (21 1/16 × 16 7/16 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 61 cm (28 × 24 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Night and moonlight · Music and dance · Work and rural life
Main colour: Black · lightness 24, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Clara Margaret Lynch in memory of John A. Lynch. 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