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Portrait of the Artist
Mary Cassatt · 1874
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
About this painting
One of only two known self-portraits by Cassatt, painted the year after Degas invited her to join the Impressionists — his influence shows in its daring asymmetrical pose.
Medium
Watercolor and gouache on wove paper, laid down on paper
Dimensions
60 × 41 cm (23.6 × 16.1 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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