![1882, Edgar Degas, The Milliner [pastel] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) | by R.M.Lenox](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49057336102_57fd368b9a.jpg)
1882, Edgar Degas, The Milliner [pastel] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Degas's images of milliners often present witty formal analogies between women and the hats they sell or admire. In this pastel the visual pun is unmistakable. Degas compares the young shopgirl-who resembles Marie van Goethem, the model for his sculpture The Little Fourteen-Year-Old-Dancer-with an inanimate hat stand in the form of a dummy's head. The bright blue eyes of the unseeing stand stare fixedly at the hat it may soon wear.
1882, Edgar Degas, The Milliner [pastel] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Degas's images of milliners often present witty formal analogies between women and the hats they sell or admire. In this pastel the visual pun is unmistakable. Degas compares the young shopgirl-who resembles Marie van Goethem, the model for his sculpture The Little Fourteen-Year-Old-Dancer-with an inanimate hat stand in the form of a dummy's head. The bright blue eyes of the unseeing stand stare fixedly at the hat it may soon wear.