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Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly

Mary Cassatt American
1880
Not on view
Cassatt and her family spent the summer of 1880 at Marly-le-Roi, outside of Paris, where the artist focused on depicting gardens and domestic life. Here, she has portrayed her older sister, Lydia, fashionably if incongruously overdressed and insulated by a walled garden landscape. She is absorbed in the sort of old-fashioned textile handwork that was increasingly prized by the affluent in these years of mechanized labor. Although Cassatt’s experiments with plein-air (outdoor) painting are few, in this dynamic composition she effectively captured the dazzling sunlight associated with her fellow French Impressionists.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
  • Artist: Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)
  • Date: 1880
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 25 13/16 x 36 7/16 in. (65.6 x 92.6 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, 1965
  • Object Number: 65.184
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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