Woman Arranging Her Hair

Mediums: сlay, pigmented wax, metal fittings, cork, wood.
Location: The National Gallery of Art in Washington (the USA).

Attention to the female toilet is characteristic of all Impressionists of the late 19th century. Degas used this topic hundreds of times in different techniques. The figure of a naked woman styling her luxuriously long hair is fashioned with great sympathy for the model. The artist, without conveying the facial features of the character (in general, all waxworks were not intended for exhibiting and therefore were not completed), is attentive to the harmony of her movements. This is one of the rather large works of the master more than 46 centimeters high; the original work was considered lost and was found together with others in the cellars of a foundry in 1954.