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Edgar Degas

Woman in a Ruffled Cap

1859–60
etching on wove paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Early scholars believed that this print might be a portrait of Edgar Degas’s mother. Today, instead, it has been tied to a drawing of the same year that depicts a similar but unidentified woman sewing.

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