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Cassatt was born in America but spent the majority of her creative career working in Europe, particularly France, where she became a member of the Impressionist movement. \n\r\nThough originally trained as a painter, a medium that she would continue to use throughout her career, Cassatt is most well known for her prints. She made around 220 prints throughout her lifetime, using techniques such as aquatint, drypoint, and etching. The V&A holds four prints by Cassatt, three black and white, and one colour print, ‘Sara Smiling’ (CIRC.325-1965). Though the colour in this print is muted, Cassatt’s other colour prints are some of her most striking works. Aside from her incredible technical ability as a printmaker, Cassatt is also known for her portrayals of women, capturing tender observations of everyday women such as mothers and working women. 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(1844 –1923)\r\nBorn in North America, made prints in France\r\nPrintmaking activity: 1878 –1898</b>\r\nThe American painter, Mary Cassatt, spent her professional life in Paris. Her first attempts at printmaking began in France in 1878, around the same time that she became a founding member of the group known as the Impressionists. She was introduced to the medium by Edgar Degas, who mentored her and collaborated with her on prints. Printmaking became a vital aspect of Cassatt’s artistic repertoire, and she continued making etchings and lithographs, and\r\nexperimenting with colour.\nCassatt worked on several states of this drypoint, but this impression is clearly not ‘finished’. This print helps shed light on Cassatt’s creative process – she experimented with various compositions and used a drypoint stylus to incise lines directly into the copper plate. Cassatt often reworked her plates, sometimes scraping and burnishing the metal surface if she was dissatisfied.","date":{"text":"2022","earliest":"2022-01-01","latest":"2022-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["E.1307-1963"],"accessionNumberNum":"1307","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1963,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-03-13","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}