Degas Reproduction of
Women Ironing
Women Ironing
Oil on canvas, 1884
76 x 82 cm (30 x 32 ins)
You can now own a Degas reproduction of Women Ironing hand-painted oil painting at museum quality and guaranteed for one year.
In Women Ironing, Degas deals with a theme which with modifications he returned to on numerous occasions.
As in many of his ballet paintings he conveys the tedium of his subjects’ repetitive tasks, while the physical exhaustion resulting from their labours is often graphically described in yawning and stretching gestures, creating out of an apparently mundane situation a vivid and precise record of a transient moment.
The bottle, often incorrectly identified as containing wine, was actually an essential item of laundry equipment, used as a mould for the rounded starched shirt-cuffs that were then fashionable.
When the writer Edmond de Goncourt visited Degas’ studio in 1874, he reported in some amazement: “Degas places before our eyes laundresses while speaking their language and explaining to us technically the downward pressing and circular strokes of the iron, etc.”, although he entirely sympathized with Degas’ belief that laundresses and dancers were “two professions… that provide for a modern artist the most picturesque models of women in this time”.
Paris was indeed famous for its laundries, but Degas in paint and Zola in print (in his novel, L’Assommoir, 1876) were the first to appreciate their artistic potential.
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