While famously known for his interest in the movement of dancers, Degas was equally fascinated by the repetitive, tactile gestures of working laundresses. Painted in dramatic chiaroscuro against a divinely white backdrop, A Woman Ironing is for those who relish the choreographed charade of the everyday. Send to a person in your life who is artistically devoted to the things others are quick to overlook, perhaps as a promise that you will try to take some neglected household duties out of their hands.Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
