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Q: What does Degas' Millinery Shop show?

A woman examines hats in a fashionable Paris shop. Degas deliberately left it unclear whether she's a customer or worker.

Q: Where is The Millinery Shop?

The painting hangs at the Art Institute of Chicago. At 100 x 110 cm, it's Degas' largest millinery painting.

Q: How many millinery paintings did Degas create?

Degas created twenty-seven works depicting milliners and hat shops over three decades. He was fascinated by these "aristocrats of workwomen." This work dates to 1879.

Edgar Degas completed this scene of a millinery shop between 1879 and 1886, showing a woman examining hats amid a display of fashionable headwear. Whether she's a customer or shop worker remains deliberately ambiguous. Colorful hats in bright greens, yellows, and blues dominate the composition.

At 100 x 110 cm, this is Degas' largest work on milliners, a subject he explored in twenty-seven paintings. X-rays reveal he originally showed the woman as a bourgeois customer before reworking her identity. The painting sold for 50,000 francs in 1913. It hangs at the Art Institute of Chicago.

A woman examines hats in a fashionable Paris shop. Degas deliberately left it unclear whether she's a customer or worker.

The painting hangs at the Art Institute of Chicago. At 100 x 110 cm, it's Degas' largest millinery painting.

Degas created twenty-seven works depicting milliners and hat shops over three decades. He was fascinated by these "aristocrats of workwomen." This work dates to 1879.

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