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Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
By flipping and repositioning the standing figure of Cassatt to overlap with the seated figure of her sister, reading a guidebook, Degas reinvented his own composition from The Etruscan Gallery, shown nearby. He printed more than twenty different states of this etching in 1879–80, experimenting with tonal techniques to create one of his most complex prints. The addition of pastel to this impression in 1885 shows his continued meditation on the subject, which also evolved into paintings.
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