CASSATT, Mary
(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.




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