Susan in a Straw Bonnet

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1883

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926

Mary Cassatt preferred to use friends, relatives, and close acquaintances as her models. Susan was a cousin of Cassatt’s housekeeper Mathilde Valet and frequently posed for Cassatt in the early 1880s.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Mary Cassatt
Title: Susan in a Straw Bonnet
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1878–1888
Medium: Pastel on paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left
Dimensions: 62.3 × 51.2 cm (24 1/2 × 20 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Kate L. Brewster
Reference Number: 1950.119
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 69.
Frederick Sweet, Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and in Chicago Collections,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967), p. 37 (ill.).
Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings (Washington DC, 1970), no. 106 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Mary Cassatt Memorial Exhibition,” December 21, 1926-January 24, 1927, cat. 6.
Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, “A Memorial Exhibition of Mary Cassatt,” March 15-April 15, 1928, cat. 27.
Lake Forest, Ill., Lake Forest College, “100th Anniversary of Lake Forest College,” June 9-June 17, 1957

Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, January 11, 1923 [Breeskin 1970]. Sold by Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, February 2, 1925 [invoice] bequeathed by his wife, Kate Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947) to the Art Institute, 1950.

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