Margot Wearing a Bonnet (No. 1)
Mary Cassatt American
Not on view
As a printmaker, Cassatt often used drypoint for linear images, a technique that uses an etching needle to scratch images into a copper printing plate. She found this technique to encourage the visual minimalism that she admired in Japanese woodblock prints. Throughout her career, the artist focused on compositions centered on women and children, here portraying Margot Lux, a child who lived in a village near Cassatt's country house. She also appears in a pastel in the Museum's collection titled "Margot in an Orange Dress" (22.16.25), in fact the compositions are so close that it seems likely that the print was based on the pastel.
