The Millinery Shop  1886

Of at least fifteen pastels, drawings, and paintings that Edgar Degas created on this subject during the 1880s, [i]The Millinery Shop[/i] is the largest and perhaps the most ambitious. As a result of its unusual cropping and tilted perspective, it seems to capture an unedited glimpse of the interior of a small nineteenth-century millinery shop. The identity of the young wo...