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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers, 1865
Edgar Degas (French 1834–1917)
Oil on canvas; 29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm)
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.128)

 
Lady at the Tea Table, 1883–85
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
Oil on canvas; 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 61.0 cm)
Gift of Mary Cassatt, 1923 (23.101)


Degas conflated a portrait with a still life to create an image of a bourgeois woman pensively gazing away from the viewer. The composition is asymmetrical: the artist cropped the woman's figure and devoted much space to the floral arrangement.

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