Color in the Age of Impressionism

Agnolo Bronzino, Eleonora di Toledo, ca. 1560. Oil on panel. Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Woman in dress, Paris, 1880s. New York Public Library, New York City, N.Y. Credit: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Henri-Joseph Harpignies, A Potted Fuchsia with Children’s Toys, 1877. Watercolor. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Edgar Degas, Portrait of Mme Edmondo de Morbilli, née Thérèse De Gas, 1869. Pastel on cardboard. Private collection.

Edgar Degas, Madame Camus, 1869–70. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Edgar Degas, Woman Ironing, begun ca. 1876, completed ca. 1887. Oil on canvas. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Edgar Degas, The Milliners, ca. 1882–before 1905. Oil on canvas. Getty Art Institute, Los Angeles, Calif. Courtesy of the Getty Art Institute, Los Angeles, Calif.