Exhibit image
Imagee-Card
21 10.0 (4)

Woman Combing Her Hair  1890

by Edgar Degas

This is the second of two variants of a composition that Degas created about 1885 (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg). In this version, he used a new technique, applying pastel in so many successive layers that the pigment became burnished and the underlying paper rubbed to such an extent that the fibers were loosened and now project from the surface like many little ...
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art