A Balcony in Seville

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A Balcony in Seville

1873

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

After her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt traveled to Europe in 1866 to complete her artistic training. She traveled widely—including a visit to Seville, Spain, where she painted this work—before settling in Paris in 1874. On the Balcony illustrates Cassatt’s practice of modernizing traditional motifs, an approach that aligned her with the French Impressionists, with whom she exhibited beginning in 1879.

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Object Details

Title:

A Balcony in Seville

Date:

1873

Artist:

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

40 1/16 × 32 7/16 inches (101.7 × 82.4 cm) Framed: 46 3/4 × 39 1/4 × 3 1/2 inches (118.7 × 99.7 × 8.9 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of John G. Johnson for the W. P. Wilstach Collection, 1906

Accession Number:

W1906-1-7

Geography:

Made in Seville, Spain, Europe

Provenance

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