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Susan in a Straw Bonnet
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)
c. 1883
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 62.3 × 51.2 cm (24 1/2 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Kate L. Brewster
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Mary Cassatt preferred to use friends, relatives, and close acquaintances as her models. Susan was a cousin of Cassatt’s housekeeper Mathilde Valet and frequently posed for Cassatt in the early 1880s.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
