Mary Cassatt
The Child's Bath
1893
A verified collection highlight at Art Institute of Chicago: Mary Cassatt, 1893. Oil on canvas.
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Mary Cassatt
b. 1844, Allegheny City (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania · Based in Paris, France
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1862)
- Studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris
- Impressionism
- Painting
- Pastel
- Color Aquatint
Mary Cassatt was the leading American Impressionist and a close collaborator of Edgar Degas in Paris. Renowned for tender, unsentimental depictions of the intimate bonds between mothers and children, her masterly pastels and Japanese-inspired aquatints captured female private life with psychological truth.
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