COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.1975.319.1
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name:
Cassatt, Mary
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1844-1926
Creator Name-CRT:
Mary Cassatt
Title:
Portrait of the Artist
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1878
Creation Start Date:
1878
Creation End Date:
1878
Materials and Techniques:
Gouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored wood-pulp paper
Classification Term:
Work on Paper: Watercolor
Dimensions:
23 5/8 x 16 3/16 in. (60.1 x 41.2 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
ID Number:
1975.319.1
Credit Line:
Bequest of Edith H. Proskauer, 1975
Context:
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 reflected in the unusual sage-green background, the attention to contrasting complementary colors, and the figure's daring asymmetrical pose and indifference to the viewer. Louisine Elder (later Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer), a young American Cassatt had met in Paris in 1874, acquired this self-portrait from the artist by 1879 and lent it to the thirteenth annual exhibition of the American Watercolor Society in New York, in February 1880.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.ap1975.319.1.R.tif
