Woman Ironing
between 1892 and 1895
Edgar Degas traded the glamorous ballet dancers and high-society parties of Paris for the exhausting reality of working-class laundresses in this striking piece. Painted in the 1890s, the woman leans heavily over her ironing board, her posture capturing the sheer physical toll of the repetitive labor. Degas uses warm, earthy tones to highlight her concentration, showing us the unglamorous side of modern life that many of his Impressionist peers ignored. It's a raw, honest look at the invisible workforce of 19th-century France.
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