# Mary Cassatt in the Paintings Gallery at the Louvre

- By: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
- Date: 1879–80
- Medium: Etching, soft ground etching, aquatint, and drypoint on grayish-ivory wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image/plate: 30.5 × 12.6 cm (12 1/16 × 5 in.); Sheet: 34 × 17.5 cm (13 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76002)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a966261c-5ea8-120a-3c65-f7fd6d17df2a/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This print signals the close friendship between Edgar Degas and fellow Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. The two artists experimented with print­making techniques, which Degas used to create this image of Cassatt as a confident modern woman enjoying the painting galleries of the Musee du Louvre, Paris. She is accompanied by a figure who is probably her sister Lydia. Degas, like Cassatt, collected Japanese prints, and the vertical format, pillared framing device, rear silhouettes, and fanning skirt in this print are strikingly japoniste features.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0