Susan in a Straw Bonnet
Mary Cassatt
1878–1888
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 62.3 × 51.2 cm (24 1/2 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- pastel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpastelpastels (crayons)crayonspaper (fiber product)
About
Mary Cassatt preferred to use friends, relatives, and close acquaintances as her models. Susan was a cousin of Cassatt’s housekeeper Mathilde Valet and frequently posed for Cassatt in the early 1880s.
