Edgar Degas, Woman Ironing (La Repasseuse), c. 1869, oil on canvas, 92.5 × 73.5 cm, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Neue Pinakothek, Munich, inv. 14310. Image credit: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Neue Pinakothek München, CC BY-SA 4.0. Laundry was an inescapable part of life in nineteenth-century Paris. Clothes and household linen were generally sent out to be cleaned,Continue reading “The Laundress: Between Social Type and Individual”
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