Mary Cassatt: Une Impressionniste Américaine à Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris March 9–July 23, 2018 [Exhibition Review]

Mary Cassatt: Une Impressionniste Américaine à Paris (Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist in Paris), an exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris (March 9–July 23, 2018), pays tribute to the artist in the metropolis in which she chose to pursue her career. The American-born Cassatt first settled in Paris in 1874 and later divided her time between the French capital and the nearby countryside, where she died in 1926 at age eighty-two in her château de Beaufresne on the Oise River. Cassatt’s paintings were exhibited first in the official Paris Salon in 1868, followed by the Salons of 1870, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, and 1876. Thereafter they were seen in four Impressionist exhibitions (1879, 1880, 1881, 1886), and from the 1890s on, in private galleries. Cassatt, who enthusiastically joined the artists who preferred to be called Independents but became known as Impressionists, gave up showing at the Salon’s official exhibitions (unlike some of her colleagues, Renoir and Monet for example) and was fiercely loyal to the group.