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Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
Lady at the Tea Table, 1883–85
Oil on canvas; 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 61 cm)
Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1914
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of the artist, 1923 (23.101)
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Cassatt painted this portrait of her cousin Mrs. Robert Moore Riddle (d. 1892) to thank the sitter's family for the gift of the blue-and-white Chinese export porcelain tea service that appears on the table. Mrs. Riddle's daughter disliked the portrait, objecting to the size of her mother's nose. The painting was put away and forgotten until 1914, when Cassatt's friend Louisine W. Havemeyer prompted Durand-Ruel to display it in Paris. After it was shown in an April 1915 exhibition in New York to benefit women's suffrage, the artist lent and then gave it to the Metropolitan.
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