Susan in a Straw Bonnet

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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