New exhibition restores painter’s place as leading figure in French movement that revolutionised art
As a painter, friend, and collaborator of Edgar Degas, who exhibited with impressionist artists including Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt was at the heart of the 19th-century movement that emerged in France and revolutionised art.
She was also a woman and foreign – “American, American through and through” is how she described herself. As a result, in the 100 years since her death, Cassatt has been frequently overlooked in the country where she produced her best work.