Mary Cassatt / Portrait of the Artist / 1878

Mary Cassatt
Portrait of the Artist
1878
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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 Start Date: 1878
Creation End Date: 1878
Creation Date: 1878
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Classification Term: Work on Paper: Watercolor
Materials and Techniques: Gouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored wood-pulp paper
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
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
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.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1975.319.1
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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