Auguste Renoir - The Milliner 1877

The Milliner 1877
The Milliner
1877 53x41cm pastel/paper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
Like Degas, Renoir depicted Parisian milliners in the late 1870s and 1880s. Whereas Degas derived humor from the activity of buying a hat, Renoir focused on the charms of the young salesgirls.