The Milliner, ca. 1882, Pastel and charcoal on warm gray wove paper, now discolored to buff (watermark MICHALLET), laid down on

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The Milliner, ca. 1882, Pastel and charcoal on warm gray wove paper, now discolored to buff (watermark MICHALLET), laid down on dark brown wove paper, 18 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Degas’s images of milliners often present witty formal analogies between women and the hats they sell or admire. In this pastel the visual pun is unmistakable. Degas compares the young shopgirl—who resembles Marie van Goethem, the model for his sculpture The Little Fourteen-Year-Old-Dancer—with an inanimate hat stand in the form of a dummy's head

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