Art Institute of Chicago
Susan in a Straw Bonnet
Mary Cassatt
- Date
- c. 1883
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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