A Woman and a Girl Driving

A Woman and a Girl Driving is an oil-on-canvas painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, created in 1881. It depicts the artist's sister Lydia alongside Odile Fèvre, the niece of Edgar Degas, in a carriage traveling through the Bois de Boulogne.[1] Scholars have seen the painting as a representation of growing female autonomy in the Parisian public sphere, where driving one's own carriage signified independence. The painting is held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[2][3][4]

A Woman and a Girl Driving
ArtistMary Cassatt
Year1881
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions89.7 cm × 130.5 cm (35.3 in × 51.4 in)
LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

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References
  1. "A Woman and a girl driving". Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  2. "A Woman and a girl driving". Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  3. Thomas, G. M. (2006). "Women in public: the display of felinity in the parks of Paris". The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Manchester: 32-48.
  4. Yeh, S. Fillin (1976). "Mary Cassatt's images of women". Art Journal. 35 (4): 363. doi:10.2307/776228. JSTOR 776228.
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