Artist

Mary Cassatt — Berthe Morisot’s American Heiress

1844, Allegheny City (Pennsylvania, United States) — 1926, Mesnil-Théribus (Oise, France)

Impressionism

Timeline

1844

Born in Allegheny City (Pennsylvania)

1865

Moved to Paris to study painting

1868

First work accepted into the Paris Salon

1877

Edgar Degas invited him to exhibit with the Impressionists

1879

First Impressionist exhibition (4th exhibition)

1890

Japanese prints make their debut in Paris

1894

Purchases the Château de Beaufresne in Le Mesnil-Théribus

1904

Receives the French Legion of Honor

1926

Dies at the Château de Beaufresne

Paris, 1877. A painter knocks on the door of a studio on Rue de Laval (now Rue Victor-Massé, 9th arrondissement). Inside, a young American woman, thirty-three years old and living in Paris for over ten years, is painting. Her name is Mary Cassatt. The man knocking on her door is Edgar Degas. He has come to invite herto exhibit with the Impressionists.

Cassatt hesitates. She has already exhibited seven times at the official Salon since 1868. She has been accepted, rejected, and accepted again. But Degas’s invitation touches her. In her own words, recounted much later to her friend Louisine Havemeyer, she accepted because “it meant freedom.” Leaving the Salon. Joining an avant-garde rejected by the institution. Choose a side.

Two years later, in April 1879, Mary Cassatt exhibited for the first time with the Impressionist group at the 4th exhibition held at 28 Avenue de l’Opéra. She was the only American. She would return in 1880, 1881, and 1886— four Impressionist exhibitions in total. Berthe Morisot, the other woman in the group, was her contemporary and equal. Edgar Degas became her artistic mentor, her closest friend, and her confidant for forty years.

This article recounts the unique life story of this American woman from Pennsylvania’s upper middle class who chose Paris at the age of twenty-and never left, lived in France for sixty years, became the leading exponent of the maternal theme pioneered by Berthe Morisot with *Le Berceau* in 1872, and introduced Impressionism to the United States by advising the major American collectors who built the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first Impressionist collections.

Allegheny 1844 — The Childhood of a Francophile American Bourgeois Woman

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania—a city that is now part of Pittsburgh. Her family belonged to the American upper middle class and was of French Huguenot descent. Her father, Robert Simpson Cassatt (1806–1891), was a successful stockbroker and mayor of Allegheny in the 1850s. Her mother, Katherine Kelso Johnston Cassatt, was well-educated, fluent in French, and had spent part of her youth in Europe.

Mary was the fifth of seven children. Several of her siblings would play an important role in her life: Lydia Cassatt (1837–1882), her older sister, would be her favorite model in the 1870s and 1880s; Alexander Cassatt (1839–1906), her older brother, would become the seventh president of the Pennsylvania Railroad —one of the most powerful American railroad companies of the time.

1851–1855: The Cassatt family moved to Europe, first to Paris and then to Germany (Heidelberg, Darmstadt). Mary was between seven and eleven years old. She learned French (which she would speak fluently throughout her life) andGerman. She visited the great European museums with her parents—her first exposure to Western painting, which would have a lasting impact on her artistic calling.

1855: The family returned to Pennsylvania. Mary then attended a traditional middle-class school.

1861–1865: Mary enrolls at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She is between the ages of 17 and 21. The American Civil War (1861–1865) was raging all around her, but Philadelphia was relatively unscathed. She received a classical education—copying plaster casts, studying anatomy, and painting from live models. According to several biographical sources, Mary was dissatisfied with the quality of instruction and the treatment of female students at the Academy—they were barred from classes in drawing from male nude models and were supervised more strictly than their male classmates.

1865: At the age of twenty-one, Mary told her parents that she wanted to go to Paris to study painting. Her father strongly opposed the idea— “I would rather see you dead than such a thing,” he reportedly said, refusing to allow his daughter to pursue an artistic career. Mary stood her ground. She prevailed. December 1865: Mary set sail for France, accompanied by her mother Katherine and a college friend, Eliza Haldeman.

The Parisian lineup — Gérôme, Couture, Chaplin

In Paris in January 1866, Mary Cassatt began her training under the masters of the French academic art tradition. She enrolled inthe studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), a renowned Orientalist and academic painter and one of the most prestigious teachers in Paris at the time. Gérôme accepted female students—a rare occurrence. There, Mary learned the rigor of drawing, anatomical precision, and the polished finish of academic painting.

She also took classes with Charles Chaplin (1825–1891), a society portraitist, and Paul-Constant Soyer (1823–1903), a landscape painter. She visited Barbizon, the center of French plein air painting. She obtained her Louvre copyist’s permit —an authorization that allowed her to copy masterpieces from the national collections, a required practice for any serious 19th-century artist.

Mary copied Velázquez, Rubens, Frans Hals, Murillo, and Correggio. She observed the light of the Venetians, the vigor of the Flemish, and the delicacy of the Spaniards. It is this rigorous training in the works of the Old Masters that will always set Mary Cassatt apart from her future Impressionist friends—for her, drawing remains paramount, and the construction of the figure takes precedence over its dissolution in light.

1868: At the age of twenty-four, Mary had her first work accepted into the Official Paris Salon — A Mandolin Player, signed “Mary Stevenson” (her middle name, which she was using at the time). Her first official success.

July 1870: The Franco-Prussian War breaks out. Paris is under threat. Mary and her family return to the United States for their safety. Mary spends two years in Pennsylvania, frustrated by her distance from the Parisian art scene.

1871–1872: Mary returned to Europe for an extended study tour. She spent eight months in Parma (Italy), where she studied Correggio and Parmigianino and worked with Carlo Raimondi, director of the engraving department at the Academy of Parma. She then traveled to Spain (Madrid, Seville—where she painted several works with Spanish subjects), Belgium (Antwerp—Rubens, Van Dyck), and the Netherlands (Frans Hals in Haarlem).

1872–1873: Great success at the Salon. *During Carnival* (a Spanish subject) was accepted in 1872, and *Bullfighter and Young Girl* in 1873— works very similar to Manet’s in composition and color palette. Several art critics noted this resemblance to Manet, whom Mary deeply admired at the time.

Paris, 1875 — An Encounter with Degas’s Paintings

1873: Mary moved permanently to Paris with her mother, Katherine, and her sister, Lydia. She would never return to live in the United States. Her Parisian residences were, in succession, on Rue de Laval, then Rue Pierre-Charron, and finallythe building on Rue de Marignan (8th arrondissement), where she lived from 1887 until her death.

1875–1877: a critical transitional period. Mary continued to exhibit at the Salon, but her work was rejected in 1875 and 1877. The official jury became more stringent. She began to wonder if she should look elsewhere.

Around 1875, according to the story Mary would later tell her friends, she discovered Edgar Degas’s works on display in the window of a Parisian gallery (probably the Durand-Ruel Gallery). She stopped in her tracks, transfixed. She would later say:

“I had my nose pressed against the window, trying to take in as much of his art as possible. It had changed my life. I saw art then the way I wanted to see it.”

— Mary Cassatt, as quoted by her biographer Frederick A. Sweet

The aesthetic impact is so profound that it marks Mary’s shift toward a different conception of painting— away from polished, academic finishes and toward the modernity of gesture, asymmetrical composition, and the unposed gaze that Degas was pioneering at the time.

According to a frequently cited biographical account, it was in 1874 that Degas and Mary Cassatt first took notice of each other’s work. He is said to have seen her *Portrait of Madame Cortier* on display at the Salon and to have remarked, “Here is someone who feels the same way I do.” “ The exact attribution of this quote is debated among historians, but the fact that Degas took notice of her work at the 1874 Salon is attested to in several biographical sources.

1877: Degas, accompanied by a brief letter of introduction, knocked on the door of Mary’s studio on Rue de Laval. He formally invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists at their next exhibition. Mary accepted. In her own words to Louisine Havemeyer, “that meant freedom” —the end of dependence on the Salon jury and entry into a movement of independent peers.

This marked the beginning of a forty-year friendship between Cassatt and Degas—one of the best-documented and most intense in the entire history of Western art.

The Four Impressionist Exhibitions (1879, 1880, 1881, 1886)

Mary Cassatt participated in four of the eight Impressionist exhibitions held between 1874 and 1886—as a point of reference, Berthe Morisot took part in seven out of eight, and Camille Pissarro in all eight. Cassatt joined the movement later, but she threw herself into it with particular intensity.

4th Impressionist Exhibition—April 1879 (28 Avenue de l’Opéra). Cassatt’s first participation. She exhibited 11 works, including *Woman in a Box* (National Gallery of Art, Washington—a major work that has often been reproduced). Critic Edmond Duranty welcomed her debut: “Mlle. Cassatt is a newcomer, and we welcome her with pleasure.”

5th Impressionist Exhibition — April 1880 (10 rue des Pyramides). Cassatt exhibited again, along with, notably, *La Loge* and several portraits of her sister Lydia.

6th Impressionist Exhibition — April 1881 (35 Boulevard des Capucines, in the former Nadar studio). Cassatt exhibited works depicting motherhood, including Lydia and Edith in the Garden and The Mother and the Child — her favorite subject takes shape.

8th Impressionist Exhibition — May 1886 (1 rue Laffitte). The group’s final exhibition. Cassatt exhibited once again, alongside Degas, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Gauguin, and Seurat. It was also the major exhibition where Seurat presented his Pointillist works, marking an internal split within the movement.

Cassatt did not participate in the exhibitions of 1882 and 1886–1882 for family reasons: her sister Lydia became seriously ill in 1882 (Bright’s disease, kidney failure) and died on November 7, 1882. Mary, deeply affected by this loss, withdrew into her family life for several years.

A truly unique figure: Mary Cassatt is the only American painter to have officially exhibited with the French Impressionists in Paris. John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase —all the other Americans of her generation passed through Paris and frequented the Impressionist circle, but none formally joined the movement as Cassatt did. This historical distinction is, in fact, her greatest claim to fame.

Degas, the Mentor — Forty Years of a Stormy Friendship

The friendship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas is one of the best-documented and most complex in the entire history of 19th-century Western painting. It lasted from 1877 to 1917 (the year of Degas’s death)—a span of forty years.

Degas is, without a doubt, Cassatt’s artistic mentor . According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Degas, her primary mentor, provided critiques of her work, offered technical advice, and encouraged her experiments in printmaking.” It was Degas who:

The Invitation to the Impressionists in 1877
He taught her how to master pastel —a technique that would become one of Cassatt’s hallmarks
He introduced her to printmaking and etching —a field in which Cassatt would become a leading printmaker of the 1890s
He recommends asymmetrical compositions and low-angle shots, which are typical of their generation
Collaborate with her on the magazine project *Le Jour et la Nuit* (1879–1880, ultimately abandoned)

But their friendship was not without conflict. Degas had a difficult personality —suspicious, sarcastic, and at times cruel. Their relationship was marked by several arguments, each followed by a reconciliation. Mary deeply admired Degas but never allowed herself to be subjugated. She painted under his influence without ever becoming a mere imitation.

The relationship was never romantic. No correspondence or contemporary accounts suggest a romantic affair between them. It was an intense artistic and intellectual friendship—at times competitive, but always respectful. Mary Cassatt destroyed nearly all of the correspondence she exchanged with Degas before her own death—a gesture that might suggest a private emotional dimension, but which does not allow for any historical conclusions.

1915: Three years before his death, Degas and Cassatt exhibited together at a charity exhibition in New York organized to support women’s right to vote (the suffrage cause). A historical irony: Degas, who had no particular sympathy for feminism, agreed to participate out of friendship for Cassatt and loyalty to their forty-year artistic partnership.

The Mother and Child Theme — Berthe Morisot’s Lineage

Beginning in the 1880s, Mary Cassatt made the mother and child her favorite subject. More than 200 documented works explore this theme throughout her entire body of work—oil paintings, pastels, etchings, and drawings. It is this motif that will define Cassatt’s painting for posterity.

This specialization is part of a specific historical tradition. Berthe Morisot had pioneered, with *Le Berceau* in 1872 (Musée d’Orsay), modern maternal painting —the contemporary bourgeois mother watching over her child, observed without mythologizing, in the privacy of a home. *Le Berceau* was exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition in April 1874. Mary Cassatt had been living in Paris since 1873: it is very likely that she saw this work.

The connection between Morisot and Cassatt on this theme is not explicitly described by art historians as a documented direct influence. No institutional source states that “Cassatt saw *Le Berceau* and was inspired by it.” But the chronological continuity is striking:

1872: Berthe Morisot paints *The Cradle*
1874: *The Cradle* is exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris
Around 1880: Mary Cassatt began painting her first works depicting motherhood
From 1885 onward: the mother and child became his primary subject

Beyond Morisot’s possible influence, Cassatt also had personal, biographical reasons for choosing this subject. Several of her siblings had children whom she regularly painted beginning in the 1880s. Her nephew Robert Kelso Cassatt and her nieces Katharine and Eugenia Cassatt were frequent subjects. She observed scenes of motherhood within her family circle and transformed them into paintings.

Major works on this theme include:

Mother and Child (circa 1888, NGA, Washington)
The Child’s Bath (1893, Art Institute of Chicago) — Cassatt’s most famous work
Mother and Child with Red Hair (1898, Detroit Institute of Arts)
Mother and Child with an Orange (1893, Toledo Museum of Art)
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878, NGA, Washington) — a work rejected by the jury of the 1878 World’s Fair for its modernity, then exhibited at the 4th Impressionist Exhibition in 1879

What distinguishes Cassatt from Morisot in their treatment of the subject is that Cassatt goes much further in her physical and tactile depiction of motherhood. Where Morisot paints scenes of silent contemplation (the mother watching over her child), Cassatt paints scenes of everyday life —bathing, grooming, breastfeeding, playing, and eating. She introduced a maternal physicality into Western painting that had not existed before. It is this dimension that would have a lasting influence on the intimate painting of the 20th century, extending to Vuillard and beyond.

While the influence of Morisot on Cassatt remains partly speculative, the reverse influence —from Cassatt to her successors—is, in fact, extensively documented. All of the feminine painting of the turn of the 20th century (Vuillard, Bonnard, Modersohn-Becker) owes something to Cassatt.

1890 — The Discovery of Japanese Prints

April–May 1890: A major exhibition of Japanese prints was held atthe École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. More than a thousand prints by the masters ofukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) were on display there— Utamaro, Toyokuni, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Sharaku, and Kuniyoshi.

Mary Cassatt visited the exhibition with Berthe Morisot and her husband, Eugène Manet. According to accounts, the three artists were deeply moved. Cassatt, in particular, was captivated by Utamaro and Toyokuni —the two Japanese masters of depicting women and intimate domestic scenes.

The influence on Cassatt was immediate and profound. Beginning in the summer of 1890, she undertook a series of ten color etchings (1890–1891) directly inspired by Japanese prints:

The Letter
The Restroom
Hairstyling
The Bath
Bedtime for the Child
The Promenade
The Seamstress
The Show
A Mother’s Caress
By bus

These ten engravings were exhibited in 1891 at the Durand-Ruel Gallery during his first solo exhibition in Paris. Camille Pissarro visited the exhibition and told his son Lucien (in a letter that has been preserved): “Do you remember Miss Cassatt’s early works? Well, they’re already marvelous.”

Japanese influences would permanently transform Cassatt’s style— simplified outlines, flat areas of color, diagonal compositions, and tight framing. Although she never practiced xylography herself (a Japanese woodblock-printing technique), she adapted its aesthetic to European intaglio printmaking.

Ambassador of Impressionism in the United States — The Havemeyer Collection

Mary Cassatt occupies a unique place in the history of Western art, both for her own work and for her role as an ambassador of Impressionism in the United States.

1873: In Paris, Mary met Louisine Elder, a seventeen-year-old American from Brooklyn and a wealthy heiress. Mary, who was twenty-nine at the time, became her friend and artistic advisor. That same year, she encouraged her to buy a pastel by Degas —one of the first purchases of an Impressionist work by an American collector.

1883: Louisine Elder married Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847–1907), a sugar magnate and one of the richest men in America (founder ofthe American Sugar Refining Company). The Havemeyers became passionate about collecting art, guided directly and personally by Mary Cassatt.

For more than thirty years, from 1883 until Henry’s death in 1907, Mary Cassatt oversaw the Havemeyers’ art acquisitions. She accompanied them on buying trips to France, Italy, and Spain. She advised them on what to buy and at what price. She negotiated with art dealers (primarily Paul Durand-Ruel) on behalf of the Havemeyers. No other art advisor in the history of American art collecting has had a comparable influence.

The result is one of the most significant private collections ever assembled: more than 2,000 works, including masterpieces by Degas (Cassatt had the Havemeyers purchase several dozen works by her friend), Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Corot, and Courbet —as well as Egyptian and Greek antiquities, Asian art, and works by the Old Masters.

1929: Upon the death of Louisine Havemeyer, the bulk of the collection was bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The 1929 Havemeyer bequest remains, to this day, the core of the Met’s Impressionist collection —one of the largest such collections in the world.

Mary Cassatt received no commission for this advisory work. She did it out of friendship (with Louisine) and out of conviction (she wanted Impressionism to be recognized in the United States). It is probably the most rewarding act of artistic volunteerism in the entire history of modern art—not for her, but forthe aesthetic education of a nation.

In addition to the Havemeyers, Cassatt also advised other American collectors: James Stillman, Bertha Honoré Palmer (Chicago), and her own brother, Alexander Cassatt (who would go on to own one of Pennsylvania’s earliest collections of Impressionist art). Mary Cassatt single-handedly brought Impressionism into American museums and art salons.

Beaufresne Castle and the Feminist Cause

1894: Mary Cassatt purchased the Château de Beaufresne, a country estate located in Le Mesnil-Théribus (Oise), about 70 km northwest of Paris. It served as her summer residence and, in her later years, as her primary residence. The château, built in the 18th century and set in a 12-hectare park, became the setting for many of Cassatt’s works —garden scenes, portraits of children in the countryside, and Normandy landscapes.

Feminist Activism. Mary Cassatt was, factually and historically, an advocate for women’s suffrage. This commitment, which was moderate in her youth, grew stronger as she got older. Here are a few key milestones:

1893: Cassatt agreed to paint a monumental mural on the theme of “The Modern Woman” for the Women’s Pavilion at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The fresco, which has since disappeared (probably destroyed or lost), depicted women picking the fruits of knowledge —a metaphor for women’s intellectual emancipation.

1915: Cassatt and Degas participated in a charity exhibition in New York to support women’s suffrage. Cassatt loaned 18 works to the exhibition.

Throughout her life: Mary Cassatt publicly declared her support for the suffrage cause and forwomen’s access to professional art education. Her own career—as the only American female painter in Paris in a male-dominated environment—was in itself an act of activism by its very nature, even though she rarely defined herself in those terms.

1904: Mary Cassatt was awarded the French Legion of Honor — the first American woman artist to receive this distinction. It was a gesture of recognition from France to an artist who had spent sixty years living there.

Blindness and the End — 1910–1926

Beginning in 1910, Mary Cassatt suffered from progressive blindness —likely due to poorly controlled diabetes (the most probable retrospective medical theory, though never confirmed because the disease was not diagnosed at the time). Her eyesight steadily declined between 1910 and 1914.

1914: Her blindness became almost complete. Mary Cassatt could no longer paint. At the age of seventy, she gave up her artistic work for good. She continued, however, to entertain friends, dictate her correspondence, and offer advice from afar to American collectors (notably Louisine Havemeyer after Henry’s death in 1907).

World War I: Cassatt spent the years 1914–1918 between Paris and Grasse (Côte d’Azur), where she reunited with Auguste Renoir, who had also retired due to age and illness. The two surviving Impressionists spent time together one last time.

1917: Edgar Degas dies at the age of 83. Mary Cassatt is deeply grieved. She writes to Louisine Havemeyer: “His death is a release for him, but I am heartbroken.” Forty years of artistic friendship come to an end.

The 1920s: Cassatt lived a secluded life at the Château de Beaufresne, surrounded by her housekeeper and her loyal friends. She was visited by American collectors on pilgrimages and by young artists seeking advice.

June 14, 1926: Mary Cassatt died at the Château de Beaufresne in Le Mesnil-Théribus at the age of eighty-two. She never married and never had children —a paradox for a painter who devoted her life to the theme of motherhood. She is buried in the family crypt in Le Mesnil-Théribus, France, the country she had chosen as her home.

As the critic Camille Mauclair wrote in a 1926 obituary:

“Mary Cassatt will be remembered as one of the most remarkable figures in American art, and as the only female artist of the great Impressionist movement, alongside Berthe Morisot.”

— Camille Mauclair, obituary, June 1926

Posthumous Fame — Long Forgotten, Then Rediscovered

Like Berthe Morisot before her, Mary Cassatt was largely overlooked by institutions in the 20th century—particularly in France, where posterity has largely remembered the men of the Impressionist movement (Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Cézanne).

There are several reasons for this oversight:

The artist’s works are scattered between France and the United States. The major collections are in the United States (the Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the NGA in Washington, the Boston MFA, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art)—not in France.
The Status of Women in a History of Art Largely Written by Men
The unique position of an American in France and a Frenchwoman in the United States—a dual sense of belonging that makes it difficult to find a place within a national narrative
No direct descendants —no heirs to preserve her legacy (unlike Berthe Morisot, whose legacy was carried on by Julie Manet and then Annie Rouart)

The rediscovery began in the 1980s and 1990s:

1979: Major traveling retrospective in the United States (Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago)
1998: Retrospective exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
2014: Retrospective at the Jacquemart-André Museum (Paris) — the first major tribute in Paris
2018: Retrospective exhibition at the Jacquemart-André Museum : Mary Cassatt. An American Impressionist in Paris
2020: Major Exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris: An American Woman in Paris

Today, Mary Cassatt is widely recognized as one of the leading figures of the Impressionist movement—on par with Berthe Morisot—and as the foremost ambassador of Impressionism in the United States. Her value on the art market skyrocketed between 2000 and 2020. *The Two Sisters* sold for $22 million in 2007—an all-time record for the artist.

How to View His Works

Mary Cassatt’s major collections are primarily located in the United States, but a few important works are on display in Paris.

In Paris

Musée d’Orsay — houses several works by Cassatt, including Woman Sewing in a Garden (1880–1882) and Portrait of Mademoiselle Louise-Aurore Villeboeuf (1901, pastel).
Petit Palais — has several engravings and pastels.
Marmottan Monet Museum — some works are in storage and are occasionally brought out for exhibitions.

In the United States (major collections)

National Gallery of Art, Washington — the world’s largest collection of works by Mary Cassatt. More than 80 works, including Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878), Woman in a Dressing Room (1879), Mother and Child (circa 1888).
Art Institute of Chicago — holds, among other things, *The Child’s Bath* (1893), Cassatt’s most famous work.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Havemeyer Collection, 1929, several major works.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts — extensive collection.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia — his former art school.
Detroit Institute of Arts — owns “Mother and Child with Red Hair” (1898).

At Beaufresne Castle (Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)

The Château de Beaufresne, where Mary Cassatt lived and died, is now a private residence and is not open to the public. However, Mary Cassatt’s grave at the Mesnil-Théribus cemetery is accessible and remains a place of pilgrimage for art lovers.

Mary Cassatt — Berthe Morisot’s American Heiress

Allegheny 1844 — The Childhood of a Francophile American Bourgeois Woman

The Parisian lineup — Gérôme, Couture, Chaplin

Paris, 1875 — An Encounter with Degas’s Paintings

The Four Impressionist Exhibitions (1879, 1880, 1881, 1886)

Degas, the Mentor — Forty Years of a Stormy Friendship

The Mother and Child Theme — Berthe Morisot’s Lineage

1890 — The Discovery of Japanese Prints

Ambassador of Impressionism in the United States — The Havemeyer Collection

Beaufresne Castle and the Feminist Cause

Blindness and the End — 1910–1926

Posthumous Fame — Long Forgotten, Then Rediscovered

How to View His Works

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