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Degas and the Laundress - Women, Work, and Impressionism
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An exploration of Edgar Degas’s laundress works and their
significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women’s
work in the nineteenth century  Edgar Degas’s depictions
of Parisian laundresses are some of the famed Impressionist’s
most revolutionary works. In paintings, drawings, and prints
throughout his long career, Degas emphasized the strenuousness of
women’s labor and highlighted social-class divides in his
idiosyncratic avant-garde style. Laundresses washing, ironing, and
carrying heavy baskets of clothing were a highly visible presence
within late nineteenth-century Paris, and their job was difficult,
dangerous, and poorly paid. Indeed, many laundresses were forced to
supplement their income through prostitution. Degas’s portrayals
of this harsh and complicated life were included in his most
significant exhibitions and were praised by artists and critics of
his time as epitomizing modernity. Contextualizing Degas’s
laundress works with those of his contemporaries, such as Gustave
Caillebotte, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec, this volume also looks at examples by painters
that Degas influenced and was influenced by, from Honoré Daumier
to Pablo Picasso. Richly illustrated and featuring essays by an
interdisciplinary group of authors, this study draws on art
history, literature, and history to reveal how Degas’s stunning
works take part in a more widespread debate concerning the topic of
laundresses during the late nineteenth century. Â Distributed
for the Cleveland Museum of Art  Exhibition Schedule:
 The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 8, 2023–January 14,
2024)
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