Lilacs in a Window
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| Artist | Mary Cassatt |
| Year | 1879 |
| Catalogue | BrCR 164 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61.6 cm × 50.8 cm (24.3 in × 20 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Accession | 1997.207 |
| Website | Museum page |
Lilacs in a Window is a painting by the American painter, printmaker, pastelist, and connoisseur Mary Cassatt which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [1]
It is one of the few still-lifes she executed and was originally owned by the Parisian art collector Moyse Dreyfus. Cassatt had been introduced to him by her Impressionist friends, and he became a friend and early patron. Cassatt included a portrait of him, , in her show at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition of 1879.[2]
It is on view in the Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 774.
Citations[]
- ^ "Lilacs in a Window". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ^ Mathews 1994, pp. 139, 263.
Bibliography[]
- Mathews, Nancy Mowll (1994). Mary Cassatt: A Life. New York: Villard Books. ISBN 978-0-394-58497-3. LCCN 98-8028.
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