Mary Cassatt
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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
Berthe Morisot
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Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
Mary Cassatt
…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. In 1879, Diego Martelli compared her to Degas, as they both sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense. She also played an…
Berthe Morisot
The Mother and Sister of the Artist (1869/70). Depicting Marie-Joséphine and Edma.
Grain field (c. 1875), Musée d'Orsay
The Cradle (1872), Musée d'Orsay