In the Loge
Mary Cassatt · 1878
Why it's great
A woman in a black dress looks through binoculars from a theater box, while someone in the audience might be looking back at her. Mary Cassatt, an American painter in Paris, painted women as people who looked at the world, not just as objects to be looked at. The picture is full of clever ideas. It hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Where to see it
📍 Museum of Fine Arts BostonBoston, United States
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Mary Cassatt was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and moved to Paris as a young woman. She was the only American to join the French Impressionists, and she specialized in tender pictures of mothers and children. She lived in France most of her life, and she also encouraged American collectors to buy Impressionist art. She died at her country home in France in 1926.
