Sailor Boy: Portrait of Gardner Cassatt as a Child

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Sailor Boy: Portrait of Gardner Cassatt as a Child

1892

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

The freshness and immediacy of this portrait results as much from the six-year-old boy's animated pose and outward gaze as from the artist's lively pastel technique. Gardner Cassatt was the son of Mary Cassatt's younger brother. She drew the boy during one of his family's frequent visits to Paris, where she had settled in 1874.

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Object Details

Title:

Sailor Boy: Portrait of Gardner Cassatt as a Child

Date:

1892

Artist:

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

Medium:

Pastel on paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 25 × 19 inches (63.5 × 48.3 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, 1961

Accession Number:

1961-175-1

Geography:

Made in Paris, France, Europe

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