Child with Red Hat

c. 1904

Densely applied and subtly blended pigments shape the young girl’s face, while more vigorous strokes sketch out her bonnet and collar. Margot Lux, a girl from a village close to Château de Beaufresne, Mary Cassatt’s country home and studio northeast of Paris, modeled for dozens of portraits by the artist. In the early twentieth century, Cassatt produced a series of pastels depicting young girls wearing fashionably large, elaborate hats, compositions intended exclusively for public sale through her Paris-based dealer Ambroise Vollard.

Medium	pastel on light blue paper
Dimensions	20 11/16 x 17 1/16 in. (52.6 x 43.4 cm) Frame: 27 9/16 x 24 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. (70 x 61.3 x 7 cm)
Object Number	1955.674
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Mary Cassatt, Child with Red Hat, c. 1904, pastel on light blue paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.674

Select Bibliography

Paris: Galerie Vollard.. Cat. 8.. 1907.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Miscellaneous 19th Century Artists, Supplement. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Serling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. "Noteable Works of Art Now on the Market." The Burlington Magazine 99, no. 657 (December 1957): supplement. Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt. Library of American Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Troop, Miriam Troop. American Artists in History. New York: Doubleday, 1966. Susan Meyer.. First Impressions: Mary Cassatt.. New York: Harry N. Abrams.. 1990.. Nancy Mowll Mathews.. Mary Cassatt: A Life.. New York: Villard Books.. 1994.. Nancy Plain.. Mary Cassatt: An Artist's Life.. New York: Dillon Press.. 1994. Breeskin, Adelyn D. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.