At the Milliner's

Edgar Degas

1882 · Pastel on pale gray wove paper (industrial wrapping paper), laid down on silk bolting · European Paintings

Mary Cassatt was the model for the customer in this work and also for another in the milliner series (Museum of Modern Art, New York). She purportedly said that she posed for Degas "only once in a while when he finds the movement difficult and the model cannot seem to get his idea." This pastel was shown in the final Impressionist exhibition, in 1886.

Artist

Edgar Degas

Date

1882

Medium

Pastel on pale gray wove paper (industrial wrapping paper), laid down on silk bolting

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929