Mary Cassatt. L’indépendante
Published by Musée d'Orsay
- From tuesday, october 6 to sunday, january 31, 2027
- 9:30 AM-6:00 PM
- Musée d'Orsay Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris, France
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In Mary Cassatt’s paintings of theatre boxes, women watch as much as they are watched. These scenes of Parisian life set the tone for the Musée d’Orsay’s retrospective of the American painter, marking the centenary of her death. Nearly 80 paintings, pastels and prints trace her career, from her study of the Old Masters to her experiments with colour printmaking.
After settling in France, Cassatt opened her own studio and paid her models. At Edgar Degas’s invitation, she took part in four Impressionist exhibitions between 1879 and 1886. The exhibition brings together portraits of those close to her, theatre scenes and paintings of mothers and children. It also shows how, by advising American buyers, she helped bring Impressionist painting into their collections.
A film gives visitors a sense of Modern Woman, the monumental decorative work, now lost, that she created for the Woman’s Building at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. Pastels and prints revisit some of its motifs. The exhibition closes with her support for women’s suffrage, notably through an exhibition held in New York in 1915.
Practical information
• Tuesday to Sunday, 9:30 am to 6 pm; open until 9:45 pm on Thursdays.
• Closed on Mondays and 25 December.
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Musée d'Orsay@museeorsay
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Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris, France