Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt (1878) This is...

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.