Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, 1886 - The Millinery Shop - fine art print

Description of this artwork from the French painter with the name Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

The painting with the title The Millinery Shop was painted by the male artist Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas in 1886. The version of the artpiece has the size: 100 × 110,7 cm (39 3/8 × 43 9/16 in ) and was manufactured on the medium oil on canvas. The artwork is in the the Art Institute Chicago's digital collection, which is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. With courtesy of: Art Institute Chicago (license - public domain). Furthermore, the artwork has the creditline: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has a ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width.

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Of at least fifteen pastels, drawings, and paintings that Edgar Degas created on this subject during the 1880s, The Millinery Shop is the largest and perhaps the most ambitious. As a result of its unusual cropping and tilted perspective, it seems to capture an unedited glimpse of the interior of a small nineteenth-century millinery shop. The identity of the young woman in the painting remains unclear: she may be a shop girl or a customer. In an early version of the composition, the woman is clearly intended to be a customer; she wears a fashionable dress, though her hat—a prerequisite token of bourgeois culture—is absent. In the final painting, however, the woman appears with her mouth pursed, as if around a pin, and her hands gloved, possibly to protect the delicate fabric of the hat she holds. Degas seems to have deliberately left her role as a creator or consumer ambiguous. She is totally absorbed in her activity and, like most of the women in Degas’s paintings, seems unaware of being watched. The bonnets that are displayed on the table next to her like a still life present an analogy to the artist’s creative process: where they are unfinished, so too is the painting.