Margot Wearing a Bonnet (No. 1)

1902

Not on view

As a printmaker, Cassatt often used drypoint for linear images, a technique that uses an etching needle to scratch images into a copper printing plate. She found this technique to encourage the visual minimalism that she admired in Japanese woodblock prints. Throughout her career, the artist focused on compositions centered on women and children, here portraying Margot Lux, a child who lived in a village near Cassatt's country house. She also appears in a pastel in the Museum's collection titled "Margot in an Orange Dress" (22.16.25), in fact the compositions are so close that it seems likely that the print was based on the pastel.

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Title: Margot Wearing a Bonnet (No. 1)
Artist: Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)
Date: 1902
Medium: Drypoint with plate tone; only state
Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/4 × 6 9/16 in. (23.5 × 16.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 7 7/8 in. (30.9 × 20 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Sylvia Brody, 2021
Object Number: 2023.128.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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