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Mary was born in Pittsburgh. Her father was a banker of liberal educational ideas and the entire family appears to have been sympathetic to French culture. Mary was no more than five or six years old when she first saw Paris, and she was still in her teens when she decided to become a painter. She went to Italy, on to Antwerp, then to Rome, and finally returned to Paris where in 1874, she permanently settled.
In 1872, Cassatt sent her first work to the Salon, others followed in the succeeding years until 1875, when a portrait of her sister was rejected. She divined that the jury had not been satisfied with the background, so she re-painted it several times until, in the next Salon, the same portrait was accepted. At this moment Degas asked her to exhibit with him and his friends, the Impressionist Group, then rising into view, and she accepted with joy. She admired Manet, Courbet and Degas, and hated conventional art.
Cassatt's biographer stressed the intellectuality and sentiment apparent in her work, as well as the emotion and distinction with which she has painted her favourite models: babies and their mothers. He then speaks of her predominant interest in draughtsmanship and her gift for linear pattern, a gift greatly strengthened by her study of Japanese art and her emulation of its style in the colour prints she made. While her style may partake of the style of others, her draughtsmanship, her composition, her light, and her colour are, indeed, her own. There are qualities of tenderness in her work which could have been put there, perhaps, only by a woman. The qualities which make her work of lasting value are those put there by an outstanding painter.
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Length1 hr 51 mins
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Publish dateDec 5, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Biography
3Bacchante
4During Carnival
5Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter
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6On a Balcony
7Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla
8After the Bullfight
9The Young Bride
10Mrs Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading
11Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée
12Portrait of the Artist
13Children in the Garden
14Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
15Woman Reading
16In the Loge, at the Opera
17Woman Standing, Holding a Fan
18Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
19On the Balcony
20At the Theatre
21The Cup of Tea
22Lydia Leaning on Her Arms Seated in a Loge
23A Corner of the Loge
24At the Theatre
25Interior Scene
26A Woman and a Girl Driving
27The Tea
28Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
29Self Portrait
30Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt
31Miss Mary Ellison
32Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child
33Autumn
34Susan Comforting the Baby (No. 1)
35Lydia Working at a Tapestry Frame
36Women in a Loge
37Two Young Ladies in a Loge
38Lady at the Tea Table
39Young Girl at a Window
40Young Woman in Black (Portrait of Madame J.)
41Children Playing on the Beach
42Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt and His Son Robert Kelso Cassatt
43Jenny Cassatt and Her Son
44The Family
45Girl Arranging Her Hair
46Little Girl in a Big Straw Hat and Pinafore
47Young Woman Sewing in a Garden
48Portrait of an Elderly Lady
49Young Mother
50Mother’s Goodnight Kiss
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