Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt (1878)
This is my favorite Cassatt painting, Mary Cassatt was a fellow Griffoniac!
She’s celebrated for her intimate domestic scenes, but she also had a sharp eye for public performance .In the artless sprawl of the child inLittle Girl in a Blue Armchair you can find foreshadowed the pose of a provocative adult.
In a room crammed with haphazardly arranged furniture, the daughter of friends of Degas sprawls on an overstuffed chair while Cassatt’s Brussels Griffon rests on another.