The Banjo Lesson
c. 1893
Medium
color drypoint and aquatint with monoprint
Dimensions
plate: 29.85 × 23.81 cm (11 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.) sheet: 41.9 x 29.2 cm (16 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Jane C. Carey as an addition to the Addie Burr Clark Memorial Collection
Accession Number
1959.12.6
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...