Mary Cassatt | |
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![]() Cassatt seated in a chair with an umbrella, 1913. Verso reads "The only photograph for which she ever posed." | |
Born | Mary Stevenson Cassatt May 22, 1844 Allegheny, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | June 14, 1926 near Paris, France | (aged 82)
Education | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Charles Chaplin, Thomas Couture |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Impressionism |
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Mary Stevenson Cassatt (/kəˈsæt/; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926)[1] was an American painter and printmaker.[2] She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy as one of "les trois grandes dames" (the three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.[3] In 1879, Diego Martelli compared her to Degas, as they both sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense.[4]