Portrait of an Elderly Lady in a Bonnet: Red Background (Q18519125)

Label from: Catalan (ca) English (en)

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movement: Impressionism (Q40415)
genre: portrait (Q134307)
artist: Mary Cassatt (Q173223)
collection: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
country of origin: United States of America (Q30)
owned by: Mahdah R. Kniffin (Q18520483) Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: elderly people (Q2191986) woman (Q467) wall (Q42948) hat (Q80151) flower (Q506) glove (Q169031) sitting (Q1144593)
instance of: painting (Q3305213) study (Q2647254)

catalog URL: http://www.artsbma.org/pieces/etude-de-femme-agee-en-chapeau-fond-rouge-portrait-of-an-elderly-lady-in-a-bonnet-red-background/

information from the Birmingham Museum of Art catalog

description: In this unfinished study for the Portrait of an Elderly Lady (now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), Cassatt has created a spirited, summary sketch that vividly characterizes the sitter. The female subject is the same in both paintings, but the figure is positioned quite differently in each. Cassatt's brilliant use of color

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