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The Long Gloves
1886
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Mary Cassatt captures the concentration of a young woman pulling on a pair of diaphanous gloves. As if transfixed, the sitter averts the viewer’s gaze, instead admiring the fabric encasing her soft arms. Cassat’s adept handling of the pastel is sensitive, but immediate, conveying the translucence of the fabric through loose, energetic strokes of cerulean blue. This color, which is plucked directly from Edgar Degas’ identifiable palette, is a testament to the artistic borrowing and exchange that occurred between the two artists for nearly four decades.
- Artist
- Mary Cassatt
- Title
- The Long Gloves
- Date
- 1886
- Place of Creation
- France
- Object Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pastel on blue-gray paper discolored to brown
- Dimensions
- 25 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (64.77 x 53.975 cm) Framed: 34 1/16 x 29 3/4 in. (86.519 x 75.565 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Gift of an anonymous donor in celebration of the Legion of Honor Centennial
- Accession Number
- 2022.64