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At the Milliner's

1881
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 821
Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a millinery shop. This pastel may have been conceived originally as a picture of a shopgirl (at left) adjusting a hat on a stand. However, once Degas drew the woman underneath the hat at the right and added the back of the sofa, the identity of the figure at the left was transformed; shopgirls were not allowed to sit.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: At the Milliner's
  • Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
  • Date: 1881
  • Medium: Pastel on five pieces of wove paper, backed with paper, and laid down on canvas
  • Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (69.2 x 69.2 cm)
  • Classification: Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper
  • Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
  • Object Number: 1997.391.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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