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Dimensions. 89.7 cm × 130.5 cm (35.3 in × 51.4 in) Location. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. A Woman and a Girl Driving is an oil-on-canvas painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, painted in 1881. It emphasizes the theme of female autonomy in a male dominated society. [1] Lydia Cassatt, the artist's sister, is shown holding ...
Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge (or Lydia in a Loge) is an 1879 painting by American artist Mary Cassatt. The Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the painting in 1978 from the bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright. [1] The style in which it was painted and the depiction of shifting light and color was influenced by Impressionism. [1]
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.
National Gallery of Art: Washington D.C. Woman with a Pearl Necklace: 1879: 31 5/8 in x 23 in: PMA 1978-1-5: 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 ...
The Boating Party is an oil painting by American artist Mary Cassatt created in 1893. It is also known under the titles La partie en bateau; La barque; Les canotiers; and En canot.[1] Measuring nearly three by four feet, it is Cassatt’s largest and most ambitious painting. [1][2] It has been in the Chester Dale Collection of the National ...
By the following year, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, a Philadelphia collector, had obtained the work. Later, Cassatt's brother Alexander Cassatt reacquired the painting and it remained in the family until Mrs. Gardner Cassatt donated it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1965. [1] [2]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. [ 1 ] The main museum building was completed in 1928 [ 8 ] on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval. [ 2 ] The museum administers collections containing over ...
The museum page provenance suggests the painting was possibly shown at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition 1879 as Portrait de petite fille. [1]By 1877 Cassatt had come into frank conflict with the official French art establishment and had had both her submissions for that year rejected by the Salon.