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Edgar Degas 1834-1917
Edgar Degas - At the Milliner's 1881
 At the Milliner's |
From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
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.