Mary Cassatt - Offering the Panel to the Bullfighter 1872-1873

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Mary Cassatt - Offering the Panel to the Bullfighter 1872-1873

Offering the Panel to the Bullfighter 1872-1873
101x85cm oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, US
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes

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From Clark Art Institute, Williamstown:
During an extended stay in Spain in 1873, Cassatt made several paintings of local customs. This work depicts a young woman flirtatiously offering a glass of water to a bullfighter, who dips panal (honeycomb) into it to make a refreshing drink. The rich colors and dazzling brushwork are inspired by the seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, whose “fine and simple manner” Cassatt praised.