Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly, (painting).

Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly, (painting).

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter.

Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly, (painting).

En brodant, (painting).

Lydia Knitting in the Garden at Marly, (painting).

Garden, (painting).

Le jardin, (painting).

26 x 37 in. (66 x 94 cm).

(Lower left:) Mary Cassatt signed

Portrait of Lydia Cassatt seated on a chair in the garden at Marly-le-Roi, where the Cassatt family spent the summer of 1880. She wears white gloves and a white bonnet, her attention directed down toward the crochet work held in her hands. Behind her is a row of red and purple coleus plants.

Portrait female -- Cassatt, Lydia -- Knee length

Landscape -- Garden

Landscape -- France

Occupation -- Domestic -- Sewing

Landscape -- Garden

Landscape -- Plant -- Coleus

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 65.184

Formerly in the collection of Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, 1893.

Widener, P. A. B., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1894.

Cassatt, Alexander J., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1906.

Cassatt, Robert Kelso, Rosemont, Pennsylvania by 1907-until 1944.

Cassatt, Robert Kelso, Mrs., Rosemont, Pennsylvania 1944.

Cassatt, Gardner,

Cassatt, Gardner, Mrs., Villanova, Pennsylvania until 1965.

The painting has also been called "En Brodant" and "Lydia Knitting in the Garden at Marly."

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.

Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 635.

Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg, "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900," London : National Gallery, 2006, no. 65.

"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pl. 35.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 98.

"Larkin, Susan G., "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work," Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2005, fig. 63.

"Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 202.

Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg, "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900," London : National Gallery, 2006, no. 65.

"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pg. 259.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 63.

Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 636.

"Larkin, Susan G., "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work," Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2005, fig. 63.

"Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, pl. 50.

The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.

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