<p>Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) was one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism, both a masterful painter and printmaker who used pastel colors in ways that few artists had dared before her. Much like her good friend and collaborator Edgar Degas, Cassatt’s paintings depict the intimate moments of women’s daily lives, and perhaps most famously, she had a remarkable gift for capturing the beauty in the smallest moments between a mother and child. Her art encapsulates the delicate minutia of such relationships, from the tender patience of one mother bathing her toddler, to the sweet affection of another kissing her infant goodnight. With her command of color and impressionistic genius, Cassatt’s images manage to convey women’s lives both authentically and graciously, highlighting the exquisite within the seemingly mundane.</p>
<p>Cassatt and her family spent the summer of 1880 at Marly-le-Roi, about ten miles west of Paris. Ignoring the village's historic landmarks in her art, Cassatt focused instead on the domestic environment. Here, she portrayed her elder sister, Lydia, fashionably dressed and insulated by a walled garden from any modern hurly-burly. Lydia is absorbed in the sort of old-fashioned handicraft that was increasingly prized by the well-to-do as factory manufacture by working-class women escalated. Although Cassatt was generally uninterested in plein-air painting, she captured the effects of dazzling sunlight beautifully in this work, especially in Lydia's large white hat.</p>
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