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Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat by Edgar Degas

Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat

Edgar Degas · ca. 1868

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Palette

Oyster
 78% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.6:1
Pale stone
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1
Putty
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1
Bone white
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.9:1
Mushroom
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

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
Edgar Degas
French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris
Date
ca. 1868
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Graphite and black chalk
Size
Sheet: 13 1/16 x 9 1/16 in. (33.1 x 23 cm)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 82, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1918. 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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