Portrait of a Young Girl

• Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
• 1899
• Oil on canvas
• From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922
• (22.16.18)

Mary Cassatt was the only American fully integrated into the French Impressionist circle. She established a distinctive artistic vision by depicting the varied lives of bourgeois women of her time. In this work, Cassatt focused on the leisure of a young girl spending time in the countryside, a scene familiar to the artist, who lived northwest of Paris. The flat treatment of the landscape and the high vantage point reveal the influence of Japanese prints.