MARY CASSATT

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Introduction

Mary Cassatt was born in Pennsylvania in 1844 into a family of four children. In 1861 she made a first trip to Europe with her family. A month before her sixteenth birthday, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Tired very quickly of the academy ambient expresses civil war in the American desire to study painting in Europe;

In Paris, it gives the same age, the kickoff of the famous collection Havenmayer forcing Louisine to buy Degas first Impressionist painting to cross the Atlantic.

Soon, Edgar Degas notices his works and invited him to join the ...