Tea
Mary Cassatt
c. 1890
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.7 x 15.5 cm (6 15/16 x 6 1/8 in.) sheet: 30.5 × 23.8 cm (12 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1971.69.2
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...