Mrs. Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading (1876). Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844-1926).
Mrs. Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading (1876). Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844-1926). Oil on panel. MFA Boston.Cassatt settled in Paris in 1875 and became the only American invited to exhibit with the Impressionist group. Like her friend Edgar Degas, she was a figure painter, attracted to intimate views of modern life. Cassatt focused on depicting the domestic and social lives of upper-class women, showing them drinking tea, attending the opera, crocheting, or reading. -- source link
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