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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?) by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

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Palette

Sepia
 41% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1
Umber
 27% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1
Lamp black
 14% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.7:1
Charcoal
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.4:1
Warm grey
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Edgar Degas
French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris
Date
1865
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Flowers
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. 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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