Why Mary Cassatt’s Iconic Painting of a Little Girl Is So Radical
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“I love to paint children,” Mary Cassatt once said. “They are so natural and truthful. They have no arrière-pensée (ulterior motive).” The American-born Impressionist became one of the most influential artists of 19th-century France with her refreshingly tender portraits of mothers and children painted in loose, tactile brushstrokes. Among her most famous paintings is Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878), now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The painting show
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