At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas
$63.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
At the Milliner's, executed by Edgar Degas in 1882, captures a fleeting moment inside a Parisian millinery shop with the artist's characteristic blend of intimacy and detached observation. Two women in nearly identical dress, seen from behind as they consider a display of hats, may represent a mother and daughter or two sisters — their shared posture and dress uniting them in a single, quietly absorbed gesture.
Executed in pastel on five joined sheets of wove paper, the work belongs to a celebrated series of millinery scenes Degas produced in the early 1880s, for which the painter Mary Cassatt herself modeled. Degas's rapid, layered strokes of pastel build up the hats' textures and the shop's diffused interior light with remarkable freshness, exemplifying his lifelong fascination with modern Parisian labor and leisure observed from unconventional, often cropped vantage points.
Now held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Edgar Degas |
| Year | 1882 |
| Medium | Pastel on wove paper, laid down on canvas |
| Dimensions | 27 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (69.2 x 69.2 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Impressionism |
