The Milliner
Eva Gonzales
1872–1882
- Medium
- Pastel on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45 × 37 cm (17 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- oil pastel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintImpressionismgouacheprints and drawingoil pastelpastelwatercolorpastels (crayons)womenportraitscrayonscoating (material)workwater-base paint
About
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.
