Visit to a Museum  1890

Stamped, lower left: degas [br]Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John McAndrew This canvas belongs to a group of pictures in which Degas painted women looking at art in museums. In reference to another work in the series, the perversely contradictory and impish Degas nonetheless remarked to British painter Walter Sickert that he wanted to “give the idea of that bored and respectfull...