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Mrs. Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
1876
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
34.29 x 26.67 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John T. Spaulding
Accession Number48.523
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPaintings
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Cassatt settled in Paris in 1875 and became the only American invited to exhibit with the Impressionist group. Like her friend Edgar Degas, she was a figure painter, attracted to intimate views of modern life. Cassatt focused on depicting the domestic and social lives of upper-class women, showing them drinking tea, attending the opera, crocheting, or reading.
InscriptionsUpper left: M.S.Cassatt./Paris/1876.
Provenance1894, by descent from Mary E.G. Duffee (the sitter) to her daughter, Frances Harold Duffee. E.D. Levinson, Cedarhurst, NY. 1934, sold by Wildenstein and Co., New York to John Taylor Spaulding (b. 1870 - d. 1948), Boston; 1948, bequest of John Taylor Spaulding to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 3, 1948)