Kitagawa Utamaro vs. Edgar Degas

These two artists has a almost the same style.  Kitagawa Utamaro and Edgar Degas both have painted someone getting their hair combed.  These paintings has a naturalistic and abstract style to them.  In some ways, the paintings might seem the same.  However, artists are usually influenced by one's art.  In this class someone combing their hair for them or getting their hair combed.  Though the do have the same style the paintings are drawn differently.  One has a robe and bathed while dried and the other is a women right after their bath and doesn't want their couch wet so she's sitting on a towel.  These two paintings is naturalistic, they do happen in daily life.  Often mothers brushes their daughter's hair because they cannot do it. However, it seems like whoever is brushing the hair is a maid.  I believe they are maids because one can brush their hair or they cannot because they can't physically do it.  However, most rich people ask maids to brush their hair for them.