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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, andfinally 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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Table of contents
1Introduction
62The Lesson
2Biography
63Mother Holding a Child in Her Arms
3Bacchante
64Young Woman Sewing
4During Carnival
65Young Woman Trying on a Dress
5Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter
66Nude Child
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6On a Balcony
67The Mirror
7Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla
68The Parrot
8After the Bullfight
69The Coiffure
9The Young Bride
70Baby’s First Caress
10Mrs Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading
71In the Omnibus
11Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée
72Woman Bathing
12Portrait of the Artist
73Afternoon Tea Party
13Children in the Garden
74The Bath
14Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
75The Lamp
15Woman Reading
76The Letter
16In the Loge, at the Opera
77Mother’s Kiss
17Woman Standing, Holding a Fan
78Woman with a Red Zinnia
18Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
79Young Woman picking Fruit
19On the Balcony
80Contemplation
20At the Theatre
81The Bath
21The Cup of Tea
82Child Picking a Fruit
22Lydia Leaning on Her Arms Seated in a Loge
83The Kitchen Garden
23A Corner of the Loge
84In the Garden
24At the Theatre
85The Banjo lesson
25Interior Scene
86The Banjo Lesson
26A Woman and a Girl Driving
87Summertime
27The Tea
88Summertime
28Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
89In the Park
29Self Portrait
90The Boating Party
30Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt
91Feeding the Ducks
31Miss Mary Ellison
92Young Mother in a Park in front of a Pond
32Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child
93Ellen Mary Cassatt in a White Coat
33Autumn
94Maternal Caress
34Susan Comforting the Baby (No. 1)
95Child with Bare Feet
35Lydia Working at a Tapestry Frame
96On the Grass
36Women in a Loge
97Breakfast in Bed
37Two Young Ladies in a Loge
98The Cup of Tea
38Lady at the Tea Table
99Mother Feeding Her Child
39Young Girl at a Window
100Young Mother Nursing Her Child
40Young Woman in Black (Portrait of Madame J.)
101Mother and Child
41Children Playing on the Beach
102Baby Charles Looking Over His Mother’s Shoulder (No. 3)
42Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt and His Son Robert Kelso Cassatt
103Mother and Child
43Jenny Cassatt and Her Son
104Young Mother
44The Family
105After the Bath
45Girl Arranging Her Hair
106Baby Getting Up from His Nap
46Little Girl in a Big Straw Hat and Pinafore
107Sara in a Green Bonnet
47Young Woman Sewing in a Garden
108Woman in a Raspberry Costume
48Portrait of an Elderly Lady
109Margot Leaning against Her Mother
49Young Mother
110The Caress
50Mother’s Goodnight Kiss
111Margot Embracing Her Mother
51Mother Holding a Baby Who Reaches Out to the Right
112Reine Lefebvre Holding a Nude Baby
52Mother and Child
113Margot in Blue
53Mrs R. S. Cassatt
114Simone and Her Mother in a Garden
54Emmie and Her Child
115Mother and Child
55Woman with her Child
116Woman and Child Admiring a Baby
56The Infant
117Girl in Green
57Tranquility
118Mother and Child
58Tea
119Mother Nursing her Baby
59The Child and the Parrot
120Young Mother and Two Children
60Rest
121Mother and Child in a Boat
61Reflection
122Woman at Her Toilette
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