Monet’s Cataracts May Have ‘Muddied’ Art

Image A: "Woman Combing Her Hair" (1186/Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia). Image B: "After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself" (1889-1900/Courtland Institute of Art Gallery, London). Image C: "Woman Drying Her Hair" (1905/Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena). Images D-F show the same three paintings as they would have appeared to Degas as his eye disease progressed.