Jockeys

Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT, US

Lustrous Gamboge
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Gamboge Deep golden yellow - a traditional warm pigment, rich amber-gold.
Jockeys by Edgar Degas

Color Palette

✦ Edit in generator

Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
64.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
25.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
12.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#AC9A79 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 84°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 64.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 25.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 64.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Jockeys" (1886) reads as a mid, mid-saturation warm palette built around Yellow and Beige. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #CCCCE2 pulls the eye.

Example use cases

Subject Tags

Build a palette inspired by Jockeys
Open in generator with 10 colors pre-loaded

I Love This!

Use This Palette
Copy, export, or download for your project
Copy:
Download:
Share:

Artworks with a similar color profile

Nearest neighbours by brightness, saturation, warmth and hue across the full corpus.

More by Edgar Degas

More from Impressionism

← Browse all artworks