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Girl Arranging Her Hair
Mary Cassatt · 1886
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
About this painting
Cassatt painted this to answer Degas's doubts about women artists — he was so won over he traded her one of his own works for it and kept it until his death.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75 × 63 cm (29.5 × 24.8 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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