# Susan in a Straw Bonnet

- By: Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Kate L. Brewster
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/68384)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/bc06b7f12479cdd12a22cca5121f89e3.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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