Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Commerce

Crammed with lovely works by Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and different Impressionist painters, this richly illustrated e book showcases inventive portrayals of France’s millinery commerce in the course of the Belle Époque. Crammed with lovely works by Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and different Impressionist painters, this richly illustrated e book showcases inventive portrayals of France’s millinery commerce in the course of the Belle Époque. Although greatest identified for his depictions of dancers and bathers, Edgar Degas repeatedly returned to the topic of millinery over the course of three a long time. In masterpieces akin to The Millinery Store (1879–86) and The Milliners (ca. 1898), he captured scenes of milliners fashioning and girls carrying elaborate, colourful hats. That includes luxurious work, pastels, and preparatory drawings by Degas, Cassatt, Manet, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec, amongst others, this generously illustrated e book surveys the millinery trade of Nineteenth-century Paris. Peppered all through with pictures, posters, and prints of French hats, this e book contains essays that discover Degas’s specific curiosity within the millinery commerce; the strain between trendy vogue and reverence for historical past and the grand art-historical custom; a chronicle of Parisian milliners from Caroline Reboux to Coco Chanel; and examples of how the millinery commerce is depicted in literature. Brilliantly linking collectively the worlds of trade, artwork, and vogue, this groundbreaking e book examines the elemental position of hats and hat-makers in Nineteenth-century tradition.