Woman Having Her Hair Combed, Edgar Degas, ca. 1886–88

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Woman Having Her Hair Combed, ca. 1886–88, Pastel on light green wove paper, now discolored to warm gray, affixed to original pulpboard mount, 29 1/8 x 23 7/8 in. (74 x cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), No doubt Degas intended to include this work in the 1886 Impressionist exhibition among the nudes he described in the catalogue as 'women bathing, washing themselves, combing their hair or having it combed,' since it is his only pastel of the mid-1880s of a woman having her hair combed

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Size: 3798px × 4638px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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