Lilacs in a Window (Vase de Lilas a la Fenetre)
Mary Cassatt American
Like many Impressionists, Cassatt was drawn to gardens and often used them as a setting for her figurative paintings and pastels. She also incorporated displays of flowers into indoor scenes. This canvas, one of her rare pure still lifes, is contemporaneous with floral subjects by her Impressionist colleagues Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. Here, Cassatt has experimented with the effects of sunlight seen through a window, while also creating a visual dialogue between a structured composition and the organic sumptuousness of the lilacs.
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