Edgar Degas - At the Milliner's 1882

At the Milliner's 1882
At the Milliner's
1882 76x86cm pastel on pale gray
wove paper, laid down on silk bolting
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
Mary Cassatt was the model for the customer in this work and also for another in the milliner series (Museum of Modern Art, New York). She purportedly said that she posed for Degas "only once in a while when he finds the movement difficult and the model cannot seem to get his idea." This pastel was shown in the final Impressionist exhibition, in 1886.
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