Caillebotte’s The Floor Scrapers combines three workers, parquet flooring, an open window, wood shavings, low perspective, and natural light to explore labor, modernity, skill, and the hidden work behind bourgeois urban life.
Degas’s The Blue Dancers combines ballerinas in blue tutus, backstage preparation, pastel layering, cropped composition, and self-directed gestures to explore discipline, labor, movement, and modern spectatorship.
Degas’s The Cotton Office in New Orleans depicts cotton trading, division of labor, information exchange, and office routine through a realist composition shaped by modern observation.
