The Millinery Shop

Painting by Edgar Degas

The Millinery Shop

Artist| Edgar Degas
Year| between 1879 and 1886
Type| Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions| 100 by 110.7 centimetres (39.4 in × 43.6 in)
Location| Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

The Millinery Shop (1879/86) is a painting by French artist Edgar Degas. It depicts a woman sitting at a display table in a millinery shop, appearing to closely examine or work on a lady's hat, which she holds in her hands. The view of the scene is at an angle from above. Although Degas created several paintings concerning milliners, this painting is his "largest and only 'museum scale work' on this subject".[1][2]

In the 1940s, the Art Institute of Chicago created Postcards depicting famous artists. The postcard The Millinery Shop, is just one example. Other Art Institute of Chicago postcards can be found in the Wikimedia Commons categories:  French paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago by artist. or  Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago by artist.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Groom, Gloria (2013). Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity (PDF). New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. pp. 218–231. `{{cite book}}`: `|work=` ignored (help)
2. ^ "The Millinery Shop". Art Access. The Art Institute of Chicago. 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2015.

## Further reading[edit]

* Degas: Galeries Nationales, etc.. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada. Jean Sutherland Boggs. 1988. pp. 400–01. ISBN 9780888845818. `{{cite book}}`: `|work=` ignored (help)
* Druick, Douglas W. (2013). Master paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, for The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 58\. ISBN 9780300191882.
* Life Magazine
* The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, Volume 1
* Modern Art, 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Millinery Shop by Edgar Degas.

Video: The Millinery Shop (1879/86) on YouTube, Art Institute of Chicago

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Paintings|

* The Bellelli Family (1858–1867)
* Young Spartans Exercising (1860)
* The Collector of Prints (1866)
* Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey (1866)
* Interior (1868–69)
* At the Races in the Countryside (1869)
* The Dancing Class (1870)
* The Orchestra at the Opera (c. 1870)
* Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters (1871)
* A Cotton Office in New Orleans (1873)
* The Dance Class (1874)
* The Ballet Class (1874)
* Ballerina Posing for a Photographer (1875)
* Place de la Concorde (1875)
* L'Absinthe (1876)
* The Dance Lesson (1879)
* Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879)
* Portraits at the Stock Exchange (1879)
* The Millinery Shop (1879–1886)
* Before the Race (1882–1884)
* Dancers Onstage (1889)

Pastels|

* Café-Concert at Les Ambassadeurs (1877)
* Les Choristes (1877)
* Singer with a Glove (1878)
* Waiting (1880–1882)
* Young Woman in Blue (1884)
* The Tub (1886)
* Woman in a Tub (1886)
* After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself (1890–1895)
* Blue Dancers (1897)
* Ukrainian Dancers (1890s series)

Sculptures|

* Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881)

Models|

* Marie van Goethem

Related|

* The Impressionists (2006 series)
* The Line (2009 play)
* Little Dancer (2014 musical)
* Degas (crater)

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