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Mary Cassatt
Portrait of the Artist
1878
Mary Cassatt painted this self-portrait, one of only two known, a year after Edgar Degas invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists. His influence is apparent in the unusual sage-green background, the attention to contrasting complementary colors, and the figure’s daring and casual asymmetrical pose. Louisine Elder (later Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer), a young American art student Cassatt met in Paris in 1874, acquired this work by 1879. Havemeyer would become Cassatt’s great friend and American patron, donating much of her impressionist collection to this museum. (Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- License:
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- For more:
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10409
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