Mary Cassatt - Girl ranging Her Hair 1886
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Girl ranging Her Hair 1886
75x62cm oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From National Gallery of Art, Washington:
It was Edgar Degas who invited Cassatt to participate in the impressionist exhibitions, and the two remained close associates. Degas respected Cassatt's work, seeing in her careful compositions an approach to art that was deliberate and well thought out. Degas was known for his sharp criticism of other artists' work. He once complained to Cassatt: "What do women know about style?" She took his words as a challenge to produce a work whose appeal derived, not from a conventionally pretty subject, but purely from artifice, the painter's skill, and style. This painting is the result.