(b. 1844, Allegheny City, d. 1926, Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)
In the Loge
1878
Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Impressionist painters, such as Renoir and Degas depicted several times fashionable ladies sitting in theater boxes. Mary Cassatt also treated this subject by depicting a female figure as she peers through her opera glasses at the row of seats across from her.