Title: The Millinery Shop
Description: The Millinery Shop (1879/86) is a painting by French artist Edgar Degas. It depicts a woman siting at a display table in a millinery shop, appearing to closely examine or work on a lady's hat, which she holds in her hands. The view of the scene is at an angle from above. Although Degas created several paintings concerning milliners, this painting is his "largest and only 'museum scale work' on this subject".
Author(s): Edgar Degas