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Mary Cassatt
American (active in France), 1844–1926
Child with Red Hat
c. 1904
Densely applied and subtly blended pigments shape the young girl’s face, while more vigorous strokes sketch out her bonnet and collar. Margot Lux, a girl from a village close to Château de Beaufresne, Mary Cassatt’s country home and studio northeast of Paris, modeled for dozens of portraits by the artist. In the early twentieth century, Cassatt produced a series of pastels depicting young girls wearing fashionably large, elaborate hats, compositions intended exclusively for public sale through her Paris-based dealer Ambroise Vollard.
Image Caption
Mary Cassatt, Child with Red Hat, c. 1904, pastel on light blue paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.674
Medium
pastel on light blue paper
Dimensions
20 11/16 x 17 1/16 in. (52.6 x 43.4 cm)
Frame: 27 9/16 x 24 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. (70 x 61.3 x 7 cm)
Object Number
1955.674
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
Select Bibliography
Paris: Galerie Vollard.. Cat. 8.. 1907.. "Noteable Works of Art Now on the Market." The Burlington Magazine 99, no. 657 (December 1957): supplement. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Miscellaneous 19th Century Artists, Supplement. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Serling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966. Troop, Miriam Troop. American Artists in History. New York: Doubleday, 1966. Breeskin, Adelyn D. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt. Library of American Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Susan Meyer.. First Impressions: Mary Cassatt.. New York: Harry N. Abrams.. 1990.. Nancy Mowll Mathews.. Mary Cassatt: A Life.. New York: Villard Books.. 1994.. Nancy Plain.. Mary Cassatt: An Artist's Life.. New York: Dillon Press.. 1994. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995.
Provenance
Knoedler, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1935).