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A diagonal line of leaping ballet dancers recedes from a starkly lit dancer partially visible at bottom left. All are broadly painted against a blue-green ground above them, pale pink below. They have obscured features and are highlighted in yellow and green. A conductor's hands emerge at bottom.

Ballet Dancers

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1885–86

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Palette

Stone
 55% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.0:1
Pewter
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Green earth
 15% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.5:1
Lichen
 8% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.4:1
Spruce
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Straw
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.1:1

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
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Date
1885–86
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on plaster, transferred to canvas
Size
153.5 × 152.5 cm (60 3/8 × 60 in.); Framed: 167.7 × 167.7 cm (66 × 66 in.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Green · lightness 59, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial 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

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