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The Dancing Lesson by Thomas Eakins

The Dancing Lesson

Thomas Eakins · 1878

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Palette

Putty
 32% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.4:1
Sepia
 29% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Fawn
 25% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Coffee
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.0:1
Chalk
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.2:1
Caramel
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

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
Thomas Eakins
American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date
1878
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor on off-white wove paper
Size
18 1/16 x 22 9/16 in. (45.9 x 57.3 cm)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 56, colourfulness 18

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1925. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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