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The art historian Sinéad Furlong-Clancy suggests that Cassatt's painting contains a “sense of compression” as a result of the “heavily furnished setting,” including drawing room with a carved marble fireplace, the wallpaper, the floral coach, a gilt-framed mirror, a porcelain vase, and a table with the silver tea set. [5]
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (/ k ə ˈ s æ t /; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) [1] was an American painter and printmaker. [2] She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists.
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Philadelphia Lydia Leaning on Her Arms (in a theatre box) 1879: 21 5/8 in x 17 3/4 in: Collection Mrs. William Coxe Wright: St. Davids, PA A Woman and a Girl Driving: 1879: 35 1/4 in x 51 1/2 in: Philadelphia Museum of Art: Philadelphia Lilacs in a Window: 1879: 24.2 in × 20.3 in: MMA 1997.207: Metropolitan Museum ...
Mary Cassatt, In the Box, oil on canvas, 1879, Private Collection Mary Cassatt, At the Theater, oil on canvas,21 5/8 in x 17 3/4 in, 1879, Collection Mrs. William Coxe Wright Mary Cassatt, The Loge, oil on canvas, 32 in x 26 in, 1880, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This oil on canvas painting is 32 x 23 1/2 inches (81.3 x 59.7 cm). [1]
The tea set was a gift to Cassatt's family from Riddle's daughter. The tea service is gilded blue-and-white porcelain from Canton (modern day Guangzhou) in Qing dynasty China; in the 19th century, Canton was renowned for its exports to the Western world, as the port city was one of the centers of the Old China Trade.
The American artist Mary Cassatt painted The Cup of Tea in Paris ca. 1879–1881. The painting depicts Mary's sister Lydia Cassatt in a typical, upper class-Parisian ritual of afternoon tea. [ 1 ] Scholars have observed that Cassatt's choice to employ vivid colors, loose brushstrokes, and novel perspective to portray the scene makes it a ...
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Pages in category "Paintings by Mary Cassatt" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Lady at the Tea Table; Lilacs in a Window;