The Millinery Shop

Year	1882
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	100 × 110.7 cm
Type	painting

Degas's unusual viewpoint — as if peering into a hat shop through the display window — creates one of his most striking compositions. The elaborate hats dominate the foreground while a young shop assistant in the background adjusts a creation. The painting's spatial ambiguity, its unconventional framing, and its observation of modern commercial life make it one of his most experimental works.