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Britany Salsbury, Curator Of Prints & Drawings From Cleveland Museum Of Art spoke to Bill about Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism Sun, 10/08/2023 to Sun, 01/14/2024
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This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to explore Impressionist artist Edgar Degas’s representations of Parisian laundresses. These working-class women were a visible presence in the city, washing and ironing in shops open to the street or carrying heavy baskets of clothing. Their job was among the most difficult and poorly paid at the time, forcing some laundresses to supplement their income through sex work
https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/degas-and-laundress-women-work-and-impressionism