# The Milliner

- By: Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849-1883)
- Date: c. 1877
- Medium: Pastel on canvas
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: 45 × 37 cm (17 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/39068)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a7b409bf-9687-9348-118c-c23a7bbb4276/full/!1834,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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