Woman with a Fan
Mary Cassatt
c. 1878/1879
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 85.5 x 65.1 cm (33 11/16 x 25 5/8 in.) framed: 108.6 x 88.9 cm (42 3/4 x 35 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1963.10.95
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...