Mary Cassatt - Master Robert Kelso Cassatt 1882-1883
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Master Robert Kelso Cassatt 1882-1883
50x61cm oil on canvas
Private Collection
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Sotheby’s:
The present work depicts the artist’s favorite nephew, the son of her beloved brother Alexander. Robert first bonded with his expatriate aunt during the summer of 1880, when he visited the artist and his grandparents at their rented villa in Marly, in the countryside outside of Paris. Hoping to gain the affections of Robert and his three siblings, Cassatt recruited them to serve as her models. Although the young boy apparently challenged his aunt by refusing to sit still as she attempted to depict his likeness, Cassatt grew fond of Robert in particular. She hoped for a time that he would become an artist himself, and would occasionally allow him to join her on sketching trips.