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Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly

Mary Cassatt American
1880
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 766
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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