Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla (Q20539870)

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artist: Mary Cassatt (Q173223)
collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum (Q1192305)
location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (Q1192305)
country of origin: United States of America (Q30)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: woman (Q467) hand fan (Q193220) mantilla (Q1480322)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Smithsonian American Art Museum ID: 3835

catalog URL: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/spanish-dancer-wearing-lace-mantilla-3835

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description: Mary Cassatt spent a few months in Spain in the early 1870s. She went first to Madrid, where she copied the paintings of the Spanish masters, then established a studio in Seville. She made a series of paintings of Spanish life that emphasized the beauty and dress of the local women. This piece was exhibited at the 1874 Paris Salon under the title

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