Mary
Cassatt
1845–1926
“I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?”
Bio
An American painter and printmaker born in 1845 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, Mary Cassatt spent much of her life in France and became closely associated with the Impressionists, exhibiting alongside them from 1877 to 1886. Influenced by Degas and Japanese woodblock prints, she developed a distinctive style focused on domestic life, especially women and children, marked by spontaneity, asymmetry, and refined draftsmanship. Cassatt also achieved major breakthroughs in printmaking, notably with her acclaimed 1891 series of color prints. A wealthy expatriate devoted fully to her art, she remains one of the most celebrated American artists, with numerous posthumous retrospectives honoring her legacy.
Mary Cassatt
Baby Held Before an Oval Mirror
16.12” x 11.5"
Dry Point on Cream Laid Paper