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    We look slightly down onto a woman dressed in golden yellows, sitting in a pale green chair, with a nude child sitting in her lap as they both gaze into a mirror in this vertical portrait painting. Both the people have pale, peachy skin. The chair is angled to our left so the woman’s knees and child cant down toward the lower left corner of the composition, and the woman leans onto the arm closer to us. The chair is painted mint green and the rose-pink upholstery is visible on the seat and a corner behind the woman’s shoulder. To our right, the woman’s vibrant, copper-colored hair is pulled loosely to the back of her head. She has a rounded nose, flushed cheeks, and her full, coral-pink lips are closed. Her long dress has a low, U-shaped neckline. The fabric shimmers from pale, cucumber green to light sunshine yellow. The sleeves of the dress split over the shoulder and a second long, goldenrod-yellow sleeve falls from her elbow off the bottom edge of the canvas. An oversized sunflower, larger than the woman’s face, is affixed to her dress near her left shoulder, closer to us. She looks with dark eyes down toward the small, gold-rimmed mirror she holds in her right hand, farther from us. The child also holds the handle of the mirror with both hands, and in the reflection, the child looks back at us with dark eyes, a button nose, and pink lips. The child’s hair in the reflection is the same copper color as the woman’s, but the child on her lap has blond, shoulder-length hair. The woman rests one hand on the child’s left shoulder, closer to us. The child has a rounded belly and smooth, rosy limbs. The woman and child are reflected in a second mirror hanging on the wall alongside them, opposite us. Their reflections are very loosely painted. The wall behind the pair is sage green across the top and it shifts to fawn brown across the bottom. Brushstrokes are visible throughout, especially in the woman’s dress and hair, and are more blended in the bodies and faces. The artist signed the painting in the lower right corner, “Mary Cassatt.”

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    We look slightly down onto a woman dressed in golden yellows, sitting in a pale green chair, with a nude child sitting in her lap as they both gaze into a mirror in this vertical portrait painting. Both the people have pale, peachy skin. The chair is angled to our left so the woman’s knees and child cant down toward the lower left corner of the composition, and the woman leans onto the arm closer to us. The chair is painted mint green and the rose-pink upholstery is visible on the seat and a corner behind the woman’s shoulder. To our right, the woman’s vibrant, copper-colored hair is pulled loosely to the back of her head. She has a rounded nose, flushed cheeks, and her full, coral-pink lips are closed. Her long dress has a low, U-shaped neckline. The fabric shimmers from pale, cucumber green to light sunshine yellow. The sleeves of the dress split over the shoulder and a second long, goldenrod-yellow sleeve falls from her elbow off the bottom edge of the canvas. An oversized sunflower, larger than the woman’s face, is affixed to her dress near her left shoulder, closer to us. She looks with dark eyes down toward the small, gold-rimmed mirror she holds in her right hand, farther from us. The child also holds the handle of the mirror with both hands, and in the reflection, the child looks back at us with dark eyes, a button nose, and pink lips. The child’s hair in the reflection is the same copper color as the woman’s, but the child on her lap has blond, shoulder-length hair. The woman rests one hand on the child’s left shoulder, closer to us. The child has a rounded belly and smooth, rosy limbs. The woman and child are reflected in a second mirror hanging on the wall alongside them, opposite us. Their reflections are very loosely painted. The wall behind the pair is sage green across the top and it shifts to fawn brown across the bottom. Brushstrokes are visible throughout, especially in the woman’s dress and hair, and are more blended in the bodies and faces. The artist signed the painting in the lower right corner, “Mary Cassatt.”

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    We look slightly down onto a woman dressed in golden yellows, sitting in a pale green chair, with a nude child sitting in her lap as they both gaze into a mirror in this vertical portrait painting. Both the people have pale, peachy skin. The chair is angled to our left so the woman’s knees and child cant down toward the lower left corner of the composition, and the woman leans onto the arm closer to us. The chair is painted mint green and the rose-pink upholstery is visible on the seat and a corner behind the woman’s shoulder. To our right, the woman’s vibrant, copper-colored hair is pulled loosely to the back of her head. She has a rounded nose, flushed cheeks, and her full, coral-pink lips are closed. Her long dress has a low, U-shaped neckline. The fabric shimmers from pale, cucumber green to light sunshine yellow. The sleeves of the dress split over the shoulder and a second long, goldenrod-yellow sleeve falls from her elbow off the bottom edge of the canvas. An oversized sunflower, larger than the woman’s face, is affixed to her dress near her left shoulder, closer to us. She looks with dark eyes down toward the small, gold-rimmed mirror she holds in her right hand, farther from us. The child also holds the handle of the mirror with both hands, and in the reflection, the child looks back at us with dark eyes, a button nose, and pink lips. The child’s hair in the reflection is the same copper color as the woman’s, but the child on her lap has blond, shoulder-length hair. The woman rests one hand on the child’s left shoulder, closer to us. The child has a rounded belly and smooth, rosy limbs. The woman and child are reflected in a second mirror hanging on the wall alongside them, opposite us. Their reflections are very loosely painted. The wall behind the pair is sage green across the top and it shifts to fawn brown across the bottom. Brushstrokes are visible throughout, especially in the woman’s dress and hair, and are more blended in the bodies and faces. The artist signed the painting in the lower right corner, “Mary Cassatt.”

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    Dozens of pale-skinned men and women, mostly wearing black and charcoal gray, walk or ride in horse-drawn carriages through a busy street lined with buildings in this vertical painting. Most of the people are men, and most of them wear thigh- or knee-high coats and black top hats. A few wear navy blue, brown, or gray, but most are in black. The few women wear long skirts under tight, narrow-waisted bodices, gloves, and hats. The person closest to us, to our left of center, is a woman in a midnight-blue jacket, brown gloves, and a black hat. She holds two round hat boxes, one white and one black, in one hand with a closed umbrella tucked into that elbow. With her other hand she holds up her skirt to reveal a cascade of a white petticoat over a touch of sky-blue stocking within a black shoe. Pink flowers and green leaves, like a narrow corsage, is affixed to the front center of her jacket. Other people carry umbrellas, packages, boxes, or travel cases. The street surface is tan streaked with some touches of smoke gray. A streetlamp a short distance from us, to our left of center, has a central lantern above four more lanterns emanating from the central pole like the arms of a candelabra. The streetlamp sits on tall pedestal surrounded by a curb. The row of buildings lining the streets is closest to us to our right, and it extends into the distance as it angles to our left. Then, along the left edge of the painting, another row of buildings cuts across the street and encloses our view. On the street corner closest to us, posters in shades of butter yellow, white, topaz blue, brown, and red are plastered over a storefront that curves around a corner to our right. A long sign runs across the top of the storefront with white letters against a pale blue background. It reads, “GRANDS MAGASINS DU PRINTEMPS GRANDS ENTRÉE.” Above it a sign reads “Le” and “8 Boul” before being cut off by the right edge of the composition. Scaffolding above the signs is covered with cloths in pale laurel green and parchment brown. Buildings in oatmeal-brown stone with gray roofs extend into the distance to our left. The building facing us far down the street has arched openings along the ground level beneath two stories of windows. The sky in the upper left quadrant is painted with blended strokes of light, arctic blue and white. The artist signed the painting near the lower right corner, “Jean Beraud.”
    Jean Béraud, Paris, rue du Havre, c. 1882, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.2

    Paris, rue du Havre

    Paris, rue du Havre

    Jean Béraud · c. 1882 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.2

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    Clodion, Model for "Poetry and Music", 1774, terracotta, Loula D. Lasker Fund, 1976.10.1

    Model for "Poetry and Music"

    Model for "Poetry and Music"

    Clodion · 1774 · terracotta ·  Accession ID  1976.10.1

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