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by Edgar Degas, 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.

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