Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with
Cassatt seated in a chair with an umbrella, 1913. Verso reads "The only photograph for which she ever posed."
Young Woman in a Black and Green Bonnet, c. 1890, Princeton University Art Museum
The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt, 1893–94, oil on canvas, 35½ × 46 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Tea by Mary Cassatt, 1880, oil on canvas, 25½ × 36¼ in., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Mary Cassatt
…printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived most 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…
Self-portrait (Degas Saluant), 1863
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, (1879) National Gallery, London
Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait, c. 1855. Red chalk on laid paper; 31 x 23.3 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington.
A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873