126 Photograph by Theodate Pope of Mary Cassatt reading a...

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TitleMary Cassatt at Beaufresne

Creator namePope, Theodate

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1903-1905

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationHill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPortrait photography--United StatesNewspapers in artBooks and reading in artWomen artists

StatusTaken at the Château de Beaufresne, Le Mesnil Theribus, France

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Chapter 8. “The Most Eminent of Living American Women Painters” (1900–1910)

Nancy Mowll Mathews

Mary Cassatt: A Life

~Mary Cassatt was fifty-five years old when the new century began (figure 110). Hers was the generation fortunate enough to be in charge when assessments were being made of the outgoing century and plans were being made for the new one. She was also unlucky enough to see the power of her own generation decline rapidly—within...

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Nancy Mowll Mathews

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.252-286

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00343.8

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Chapter subject tags:Impressionism (Art)--United StatesHavemeyer, Henry Osborne, 1847-1907Women artists--United States--19th centuryCassatt, Mary, 1844-1926Painting, American--19th centuryExpatriate artists--FranceHavemeyer, Louisine Waldron ElderArt--Collectors and collecting--History--19th century

3. Blank Mourning: Portraiture and Separation

Tamar Garb

The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814–1914

~~IN 1889 MARY CASSATT, EVA GONZALÈS’S erstwhile contemporary and fellow Realist, was occupied with the last of four portraits in oil that she painted of her mother, Katherine Cassatt, then aged 74...

Author

Tamar Garb

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.101-137

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00298.3

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Chapter subject tags:Mourning customs in artWomen--PortraitsDeath in artDomestic space in artBooks and reading in artImpressionism (Art)

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