Image series 24 / 2024: Mary Cassatt
Bourgeois Women's Lives in the late 19th Century
The American graphic artist and painter Mary Cassatt was celebrated as the most important American painter of the 19th century. In her paintings, she mainly depicted women in the various activities and phases of middle-class women’s lives in the late 19th century. She experimented with stylistic devices and techniques and developed her own style, with clear pictorial observation, precise, strict lines and rapid brushstrokes that emphasised chromatic effects and extreme delicacy.
Divided into five chapters, the exhibition presents works by 51 female painters alongside Mary Cassatt, who was celebrated in her time, providing an overall picture of purely female art through the centuries.
“Maestras. Women Masters 1500–1900“
February 25 until June 16, 2024, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
Mary Cassatt. Enfants dans un jardin, Ausschnitt, 1878, Öl auf Leinwand, 73,6 × 92,6 cm; Iconothèque, Université de Genève, Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie
Mary Cassatt Selbstbildnis, Ausschnitt, 1879/1881, Aquarellfarbe auf Papier, 33 × 24 cm, Washington; ArteMIS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Kunsthistorisches Institut
Mary Cassatt. Jeune fille au jardin, dit aussi Femme cousant dans un jardin, Ausschnitt, vers 1880-1882, oil on canvas, 920 × 630 mm, Paris; RMN Musée d’Orsay, Réunion des musées nationaux
Mary Cassatt. Frau und Kind bei der Ausfahrt, Ausschnitt, 1881, Öl auf Leinwand, 89,5 × 130,8 cm, Philadelphia; ArteMIS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Kunsthistorisches Institut
Mary Cassatt. Die Bootsfahrt, Ausschnitt, 1893-1894, Öl auf Leinwand, 90 × 118 cm, Washington; ArteMIS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Kunsthistorisches Institut
Mary Cassatt. Eté, Ausschnitt, c. 1894, Öl auf Leinwand, 73,6 × 96,5 cm, Los Angeles; Iconothèque, Université de Genève, Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie