Repose
Mary Cassatt
1890
Medium
Etching in dark brown on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 23.1 × 16.8 cm (9 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.); Sheet: 31 × 24 cm (12 1/4 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
126129
About the Artist
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American painter and printmaker who became the only American artist to exhibit with the French Impressionists. Born to a wealthy Pennsylvania family, she defied social conventions to pursue art professionally, settling permanently in Paris where Edgar Degas invited her to join the Impressionist group in 1877. Her paintings of mothers and children—rendered with Impre...