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An 1880 oil on canvas, Mrs Cassatt Reading to her Grandchildren, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. The Mrs Cassatt here is the artist's mother. This painting found a buyer...

An 1885 oil on canvas, Children on the Shore, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

A portrait of Richard Sibbes, an English preacher of the Reformation. By Gustavus Ellinthorpe Sintzenich

A c. 1890 pastel on paper, Mother and Child, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. Here the artist captures the tender hold of the mother and inattention of the child in a bold use of pastel...

Scythian belt buckle, Southern Siberia, 3rd century BCE. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Celtic belt buckle, 5th century BCE. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Germany.

An 1886 oil on canvas, Girl Arranging Her Hair, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. White often interested the impressionists as to capture the play of light upon an absence of colour...

An 1893-4 oil on canvas, The Boating Party, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. Cassatt here takes her frequent mother and child subject and inserts it into a boating scene. (National Gallery...

An 1882 oil on canvas, Two Women in a Loge, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. The two young girls here at the opera are connected by the large painted fan, a fashionable addition to a...

A c. 1890-1 aquatint, Woman Arranging Her Hair, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. (National Library of France, Paris)