The Millinery Shop

The Millinery Shop
Artist Edgar Degas
Year between 1879 and 1886
Type Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions 100 by 110.7 centimetres (39.4 in × 43.6 in)
Location Art Institute of Chicago

The Millinery Shop (1879/86) is a painting by French artist Edgar Degas. It depicts a woman sitting at a display table in a millinery shop, appearing to closely examine or work on a lady's hat, which she holds in her hands. The view of the scene is at an angle from above. Although Degas created several paintings concerning milliners, this painting is his "largest and only 'museum scale work' on this subject".[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Groom, Gloria (2013). Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity (PDF). Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. pp. 218–231.
  2. ↑ "The Millinery Shop". Art Access. The Art Institute of Chicago. 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2015.

Further reading

  • Degas: Galeries Nationales, etc.. No. 235, The Millinery Shop. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada. Jean Sutherland Boggs. 1988. pp. 400–01. ISBN 9780888845818.
  • Druick, Douglas W. (2013). Master paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, for The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 58. ISBN 9780300191882.
  • Life Magazine
  • The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, Volume 1
  • Modern Art, 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation

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