A small brown dog and a pale-skinned little girl wearing a white dress sit in matching celestial-blue armchairs in this horizontal painting. To our right, the girl sits with her legs angled to our left. She slumps back with her legs spread, and her left elbow, on our right, is bent so that hand rests behind her head. Her other elbow is draped over the armrest. Her dark brown hair appears to be pulled back, and tawny brown eyes under faint brows gaze down and to our left. She has a small nose set in a round face and a coral-pink mouth closed in a straight line. Her white dress has touches of…
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Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)

1878

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 89.5 × 129.8 cm (35 1/4 × 51 1/8 in.) ; framed: 109.22 × 152.72 × 6.35 cm (43 × 60 1/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
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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