Home Alone: Little Girl In A Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt

Little Girl In A Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt, 1878, Oil on canvas, 88 cm × 128.5 cm (35 in × 50.6 in)

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ABOUT THIS PAINTING: It’s fair to say talented women artists have been ignored throughout history. That began to change with the great female artists of the 19th Century. Foremost among this group was the impressionist, Mary Cassatt.
Cassatt was born to a wealthy Pennsylvania family, who against her parents’ wishes decided to become an artist. At 15 she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, but struggled in this male dominated bastion. At that time, women in the arts were considered dilettantes, hobbyists. Furthermore, unlike their male counterparts they weren’t permitted to draw from the live model, but rather from plaster casts.
In frustration Cassatt moved to Paris in 1866, studying privately, and augmenting her training by making copies of the great masters in the Louvre.
The bulk of Cassatt’s ouvre focuses on female subjects in all respects. Children are an important element in Cassatt’s work and serve to reveal the nature of women through maternity. Cassatt also painted numerous portraits of children by themselves.
But this painting,“Little Girl In A Blue Armchair,” is unique.
Here a child sits alone in a room of chairs and couches. A small dog keeps her company. Her surrounding and her dress tell us she’s a child of the upper classes. Slouched in her chair she displays an attitude of boredom and indifference, all the more poignant, considering this large room of beautifully upholstered furniture was meant for hosting guests and lively entertainment. And her she sit alone. Here pose is somewhat provocative. It’s not an endearing portrayal like her other portraits of children but it deeper, more thought provoking.
One wonders if the child isn’t a reflection of Cassatt’s own sense of independence. Though Cassatt never married nor had children of her own, she exhibits an uncanny insight into her subjects.
Cassatt was a feminist in the best sense of the word. She wasn’t an activist or militant. Nor did want to be equal to men. She just wanted the same opportunities for success and to express her creativity.
Whatever obstacle she met from the male art establishment see saw them as challenges, not impediments.

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