Child in a Straw Hat

Child in a Straw Hat by Mary Cassatt

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 65.3 × 49.2 cm (25 11/16 × 19 3/8 in.) framed: 90.8 × 73.66 × 10.8 cm (35 3/4 × 29 × 4 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1983.1.17

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...

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