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Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly, 1880 Oil on canvas, 26 x 37 in. (66 x 94 cm) Gift of Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, 1965 (65.184) Edgar Degas was a close friend of Mary Cassatt's. Cassatt also knew and admired Edouard Manet, and it is his influence that is strongest in this painting of her older sister, Lydia, in the garden of the villa that the Cassatt family rented for the summer. The bright sunlight shining on the frothy layers of the hat makes Lydia's face unhealthily pallid, a reminder that Lydia, an invalid, was to die two years later. The enclosed garden setting suggests the secluded life that Lydia's illness required. The brilliant, varied palette and the loose, free brushstrokes are typical of the Impressionists and Manet. |
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