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Top 20 Mary Cassatt Famous Paintings [Art Masterpieces]
Who is Mary Cassatt?
Mary Cassatt was one of a relatively small number of American women to become a professional artists in the nineteenth century when most females, particularly wealthy ones, didn't seek an art career.
Cassatt started her artistic career in America and ended up showcasing her artwork at the impressionist exhibits in Pairs. Cassatt's paintings showcased the lives of women in social and private settings. She emphasized the relationship and bond between mothers and children.
Famous Artworks by Mary Cassatt:
- The Child’s Bath by Mary Cassatt
- Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt
- The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt
- The Cup of Tea by Mary Cassatt
- Children Playing on the Beach by Mary Cassatt
- Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly Painting by Mary Cassatt
- The Letter by Mary Cassatt
- After the Bullfight by Mary Cassatt
- On a Balcony by Mary Cassatt
- Young Mother Sewing by Mary Cassatt
- Mandoline Player by Mary Cassatt
- Lilacs in a Window (Vase de Lilas a la Fenetre) by Mary Cassatt
- Lady at the Tea Table by Mary Cassatt
- In the Loge by Mary Cassatt
- Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
- Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla
- Feeding the Ducks by Mary Cassatt
- Denise at Her Dressing Table by Mary Cassatt
- Young Woman Sewing in the Garden by Mary Cassatt
- Mother Playing with Child by Mary Cassatt
The Child’s Bath by Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt beautifully addressed the genre for which she is best known—women and children— with The Child's Bath; Cassatt added compositional components of Japanese art; intimate scene of everyday life is often the subject of many Japanese prints.
Cassatt saw various works of Japanese prints at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1890 and delivered a series of prints influenced by Japanese art. The Child's Bath is the culmination of her research into Japanese art, flattened planes, and decorative patterning.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100.3 × 66.1 cm (39 1/2 × 26 in.)
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Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair depicts Cassatt's unique talent for merging the impressionist style with her artistic form. Cassatt shows her ability to use a constrained palette and create vibrant brushstrokes, by showcasing dynamic interplay of structures within the painting that focuses on the child resting.
Light enters the image through the entryways in the background and breathes life into the surface of the composition. The tilted plane draws attention to the haphazard arrangement of the four large blue chairs and the earthy gray floor in the middle is composed with a smooth brushwork.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1878
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 89.5 x 129.8 cm (35 1/4 x 51 1/8 in.)
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The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt
After 1893, Cassatt began to spend many summers on the Mediterranean coast at Antibes. Under its intense sun, she began to explore different avenues of decorative shading within her paintings.
This piece reveals the flat patterned surfaces, streamline shading, and the unusual angles used in Japanese prints. The dark figured man is pushed to the top of the composition collapsing the feeling of distance. The higher vantage point gives the observer an angled perspective on the boat. Its structure is partitioned into decorative shapes by the intersection of its horizontal backings.
Citron and blue separate the image into an assertive solid geometric shape. The decorative patterning of the water surface, positions Cassatt style as a post-impressionist painter.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1893/1894
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 90 x 117.3 cm (35 7/16 x 46 3/16 in.)
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The Cup of Tea by Mary Cassatt
Taking afternoon tea was a social ritual for many, upper-class ladies. Cassatt focused on portraying the ordinary occasions of everyday life, the artist made that ritual the subject of a series of works; painted around 1880, when she had been living abroad.
Her model for this canvas was her sister, Lydia, who had moved to Paris, along with their parents, in 1877 and she regularly postured for Cassatt.
Cassatt's embrace of French Impressionism is signaled by her scintillating brushwork, high-keyed palette, and emphasis on contrasting complementary hues.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1880
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 3/8 x 25 3/4 in. (92.4 x 65.4 cm)
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Children Playing on the Beach by Mary Cassatt
The two little girls digging in the sand, absorbed in their activity, encapsulate the naturalistic attitude prevalent in both art and literature of the time.
Various shades of blue—from the profound electric blue of the dress and shoes to the delicate diffused blue of the ocean—are utilized through the work. Accents of white light pass off the dresses, hats, and pails of the little girls.
The background is diminished to its essential components through a series of thinly painted scumbles, leaving areas of the priming layer uncovered.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1884
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 97.4 x 74.2 cm (38 3/8 x 29 3/16 in.)
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Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly by Mary Cassatt 
Cassatt and her family spent the mid-year of 1880 at Marly-le-Roi, about ten miles west of Paris.
Ignoring the village's noteworthy landmarks, Cassatt instead concentrated on painting household conditions. Here, she portrays her older sister, Lydia, fashionably dressed and insulated by a walled garden. Lydia is absorbed in creating a handicraft.
Cassatt was generally unconcerned in Plein-air painting style; Cassatt captured the impacts of dazzling daylight, superbly displayed in this work, notably in Lydia's white hat.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1880
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 13/16 x 36 7/16 in. (65.6 x 92.6 cm)
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The Letter by Mary Cassatt
Cassatt started a progression of color prints in the 1890s similar to Japanese color woodblock prints. Cassatt's composition focused on female figures indoors. The Letter is a perfect example of one of those works.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1880
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 345 x 211 mm
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After the Bullfight by Mary Cassatt
Having settled in Philadelphia and Paris, Cassatt shifted her artistic journey alone to Spain, to further pursue her creative works.
Cassatt depicts the male bullfighter in an easygoing posture. She utilized sharp brushstrokes and rich colors to portray his outfit.
Cassatt picked a quintessentially spanish subject, executing this work of art of a torero, in full formal attire during her lengthy visit in Seville.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 82.5 × 64 cm (32 1/8 × 25 3/16 in.)
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On a Balcony by Mary Cassatt
On a Balcony, which appeared in the 1880 impressionist show, seems to portray a woman in an open setting.
In any case, the blue rail of the balcony is unmistakable one of the most distinguished impressionist works of art. Cassatt characterizes the encased space of a private nursery and a woman reading a newspaper.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1878–1879
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:89.9 × 65.2 cm (35 1/2 × 25 5/8 in.)
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Young Mother Sewing by Mary Cassatt
In around 1890 Cassatt diverted her art toward women and children —topics that mirrored her love for her nieces and nephews and the predominant social enthusiasm for raising a child.
Cassatt enrolled two models for the jobs of the mother and child for this canvas.
Louisine Havemeyer, who acquired it in 1901, commented:
“Look at that little child that has just thrown herself against her mother’s knee, regardless of the result and oblivious to the fact that she could disturb ‘her mamma.’ And she is quite right, she does not disturb her mother. Mamma simply draws back a bit and continues to sew.”
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1900
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 3/8 x 29 in. (92.4 x 73.7 cm)
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Mandoline Player by Mary Cassatt
A Mandoline Player delineates a young woman playing the mandolin. (Mandoline is the French spelling for this instrument).
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1872
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 91.44 x 73.66 cm
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Lilacs in a Window (Vase de Lilas a la Fenetre) by Mary Cassatt
An aubergine color vase contains purple and white lilacs. This charming painting was initially claimed by Moyse Dreyfus, a Parisian authority, who was a companion and early benefactor of Cassatt.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1880
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 50.8 x 61.6 cm
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Lady at the Tea Table by Mary Cassatt
This work shows Mary Dickinson Riddle, Cassatt's mom's first cousin, getting ready to drink tea, a day-by-day custom among upper-white collar class ladies.
The painting exhibits Cassatt's influence on Impressionism in its sketchlike finish, carefree treatment of the life structures, and the sitter's lack of concern.
Cassatt kept the composition to herself until Louisine Havemeyer convinced her to offer it to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1883–85
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 61 cm)
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In the Loge by Mary Cassatt
In the Loge was the first of Cassatt's Impressionist paintings to be shown in the United States. It appeared in Boston in 1878, pundits portrayed the painting as "striking".
The canvas, then entitled At the Français— delineates an elegant woman dressed for an evening performance at the Comedie Français, a theater in Paris.
Entertainment such as theater, drama, and the circus was a custom among Parisians.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1878
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 81.28 x 66.04 cm (32 x 26 in.)
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Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
Cassatt created a progression of theater scenes in the late 1870s. This work shows a woman (regularly said to be her sister Lydia) dwelling at the balconies of the Paris Opéra House. This painting appeared in Paris at the fourth Impressionist display in 1879.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1879
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 32 x 23 1/2 inches (81.3 x 59.7 cm)
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Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla
Mary Cassatt lived for a couple of months in Spain in the mid-1870s. She first went to Madrid, where she replicated the paintings of the Spanish experts, then settled in Seville.
She made a progression of paintings of Spanish life that displayed the high-class lifestyle.
This piece was displayed at the 1874 Paris Salon under the title Ida, where it attracted the attention of French impressionist Edgar Degas.
On seeing the painting by Cassatt, Degas remarked:
“C’est vrai. Voilá quelqu’un qui sent comme moi (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do)."
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in. (65.2 x 50.1 cm)
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Feeding the Ducks by Mary Cassatt
Ducks swim excitedly toward a paddleboat where a young lady, surrounded by two ladies, who seem fascinated by the ducks, toss morsels to the sea feeding the Ducks.
The greenish cast of the water reverberates in the pale shade of the young lady's clothing.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1895
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (29.8 x 40.0 cm)
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Denise at Her Dressing Table by Mary Cassatt
Holding a hand mirror with green moiré, a coppery-haired young lady—clearly, an expert model that Mary Cassatt painted many times—considers her hairstyle in a dressing table mirror.
The model's head and face are particularly engaging, and she is in a delicate pink-lavender robe.
The incomplete upper right corner uncovers the dim ground and Cassatt's quick brushwork.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1908–9
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 32 7/8 x 27 1/8 in. (83.5 x 68.9 cm)
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Young Woman Sewing in the Garden by Mary Cassatt
A notable element of the composition is the way Cassatt makes a focal convergence point in the work, between the young lady's jaw and her fingers.
This point links with her dress and lies at the edge of her lower arms with her descending look.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1886
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: H. 92; W. 65 cm
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Mother Playing with Child by Mary Cassatt
Cassatt utilized pastel in thick strokes for this painting. Her redundancy of a specific subject—women, and children—likewise may have been roused by Edgar Degas, who reproduced similar topics, such as, ballet dancers and women washing themselves.
As per his philosophy:
"It is essential to do the same subject over again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be chance, but even movement."
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1897
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. (64.8 x 80 cm)
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