Detail View: The AMICA Library: Portrait of the Artist
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.1975.319.1
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Cassatt, Mary
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1844-1926
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Mary Cassatt
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Title:
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Portrait of the Artist
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1878
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Creation Start Date:
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1878
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Creation End Date:
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1878
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Materials and Techniques:
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Gouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored wood-pulp paper
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Classification Term:
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Work on Paper: Watercolor
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Dimensions:
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23 5/8 x 16 3/16 in. (60.1 x 41.2 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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1975.319.1
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Edith H. Proskauer, 1975
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Rights:
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Context:
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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. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ap1975.319.1.R.tif
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