Nurse Reading to a Little Girl (1895), detail. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926).
Nurse Reading to a Little Girl (1895), detail. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Pastel on wove paper, mounted on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of “les trois grandes dames” of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot. “I love to paint children. They are so natural and truthful. They have no arrière pensée.” (Cassatt) -- source link
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