  About the Artwork
  
  
  The tenderness of the portrait with its soft colors and the emphasis on the thick bandage seem to betray a certain sympathy that Degas felt for the sitter. Although the woman's identity is unknown, she may be Degas's sister-in-law Estelle Mousson, who began losing her vision in 1866. Degas visited his brother's family in New Orleans in 1872–73, which suggests a date for the work.
  
  
  Title
  Woman with a Bandage
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1872 and 1873
  
  Artist
  Edgar Degas
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1834-1917
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  French
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 13 × 9 3/4 inches (33 × 24.8 cm)
  Framed: 21 3/4 × 18 1/2 × 2 7/8 inches (55.2 × 47 × 7.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  European Modern Art to 1970
  
  
  Credit
  Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  70.168
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
