Interpretive Resource
Mary Cassatt's On a Balcony, 1878/79
How has Cassatt portrayed her sitter as a modern woman? What was life like for women and women artists in late nineteenth-century France? Try your hand in letter-writing activities and delve into research projects about the history of your local newspaper.
Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Education Department: Teacher Programs. Many Faces: Modern Portraits & Identities, 1997, p. 39.
Related Artworks
- On a Balcony, 1878/79
