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Dancing Couple in the Snow [reverse]

Dancing Couple in the Snow [reverse]

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1928-1929

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Palette

Blush
63% of the image
Pink · text contrast 9.8:1

Blue-grey
13% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.6:1

Caramel
11% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.6:1

Prussian blue
5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.2:1

Cinnamon
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1

Smoke
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

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: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880–1938
Date: 1928-1929
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: overall: 56 x 90 cm (22 1/16 x 35 7/16 in.)
Place: German
Period: 20th century
Themes: Winter and snow · Music and dance
Main colour: Pink · lightness 66, colourfulness 18

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1938: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2009. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules