Sep 12, 2019
4 min read
Great Paintings: Combing the Hair by Edgar Degas
Unexpected, entertaining and truthful
Combing the Hair is a surprisingly large painting, nearly a meter-and-a-half wide. It shows a young woman having her hair combed by an attendant, perhaps a maid or a servant. It was typical of Edgar Degas to wish to paint a modern urban, domestic scene like this, and to imbue it with a disposition reminiscent of…
