Drawing for "Standing Nude"
Mary Cassatt
c. 1879
Medium
Graphite on buff wove paper, traced over for soft ground etching with offset of soft ground on verso, showing through
Dimensions
28.2 × 18.3 cm (11 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
155385
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...