Art Institute of Chicago
Susan in a Straw Bonnet
Mary CassattLinkedCulture matchlcp-1a8df4849ac8
- Date
- c. 1883
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 68384
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.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Kate L. Brewster
- Provenance
- Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, January 11, 1923 [Breeskin 1970]. Sold by Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, February 2, 1925 [invoice] bequeathed by his wife, Kate Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947) to the Art Institute, 1950.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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