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The Millinery Shop
by Edgar Degas, 1879
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- Year
- 1879
- Medium
- oil on canvas
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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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About The Millinery Shop
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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