mary cassatt

Mary Cassatt




Self-portrait by Mary Cassatt, c. 1878, gouache on paper, 23 5/8 x 16 3/16 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Birth name Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Born May 22, 1844(1844-05-22)
Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Died June 14, 1926 (aged 82)
Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, France
Nationality American
Field Painting
Training Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Charles Chaplin, Thomas Couture
Movement Impressionism

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Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) (pronounced [kəˈsæt]) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among 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.

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