A young boy with pale skin, wearing a burgundy-red suit and floppy hat, stands facing and looking at us with a gray terrier dog at his side in this vertical portrait painting. The boy has large, slate-blue eyes, rounded smooth cheeks, a small nose, and his pink bow lips are closed. His thick blond hair falls in waves across his forehead and down to his shoulders. His body is angled slightly to our right and he holds a riding crop with both hands in front of his body. The sheen on his burgundy-red jacket, and knee-length pants suggests they are velvet. A wide, lace collar comes to points on…
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Eddy Cassatt (Edward Buchanan Cassatt)

painter Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)

1875

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 147.96 × 109.86 cm (58 1/4 × 43 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift from the Family of Col. Edward Buchanan Cassatt
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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