Visit to a Museum

Stamped, lower left: degas
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 respectfully crushed and impressed absence of sensation that women experience in front of paintings.”