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The Milliner
Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849-1883)
c. 1877
- Medium
- Pastel on canvas
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 45 × 37 cm (17 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Eva Gonzalès’s subjects were most often women engaged in activities such as reading, knitting, or filling a vase with flowers. This pastel of a milliner, or hat-maker, shows the figure handling the trimmings that will eventually be used to decorate a hat. Millinery was a popular subject for the Impressionists, given their interest in fashion and scenes from modern life.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
