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The Dance Class by Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas · 1874

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Palette

Sepia
 55% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1
Green earth
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.3:1
Bistre
 16% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.8:1
Stone
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1
Lamp black
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.7:1
Chestnut
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.2:1

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
1874
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Brown · lightness 35, colourfulness 13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986. 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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