104 Mary Cassatt, Lydia Seated at an Embroidery Frame,...

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Description: Lydia Seated at a Tapestry Frame

TitleLydia Seated at a Tapestry Frame

Creator nameCassatt, Mary

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1881

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationFlint Institute of Arts, Michigan

https://collections.flintarts.org/objects/225/lydia-at-a-tapestry-frame

Accession number1967.32

SubjectsImpressionism (Art)--United StatesWomen--PortraitsDomestic space in artWomen artists

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Chapter 4. Changing Direction (1875–1878)

Nancy Mowll Mathews

Mary Cassatt: A Life

~Cassatt’s decision to take up residence in Paris in 1874 put an end to the romantic, nomadic life she had led for almost eight years (figure 37). At age thirty, she may have been unconsciously ready for a more...

Author

Nancy Mowll Mathews

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.93-132

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00343.4

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Chapter subject tags:Impressionism (Art)--United StatesWomen artists--United States--BiographySalons--France--History--19th centuryWomen artists--United States--19th centuryExpatriate artists--FranceCassatt, Mary, 1844-1926

3. Blank Mourning: Portraiture and Separation

Tamar Garb

The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814–1914

~~IN 1889 MARY CASSATT, EVA GONZALÈS’S erstwhile contemporary and fellow Realist, was occupied with the last of four portraits in oil that she painted of her mother, Katherine Cassatt, then aged 74...

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Tamar Garb

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.101-137

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00298.3

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Chapter subject tags:Mourning customs in artWomen--PortraitsDeath in artDomestic space in artBooks and reading in artImpressionism (Art)

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