# Mary Cassatt artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T08:29:56.868Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Impressionism
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and prints, Pastel, Drawing

## Portrait

![Mary Cassatt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/1914_Mary_Cassatt.jpg/1280px-1914_Mary_Cassatt.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1914_Mary_Cassatt.jpg

## About Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was an American painter and printmaker whose mature career unfolded largely in France. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and continuing her training in Europe, she settled in Paris and became closely associated with the Impressionist circle. Her work is especially recognized for paintings, pastels, drawings, and prints depicting women, domestic life, and the intimate relationships between mothers and children. Cassatt also addressed broader ideas about modern womanhood, including women’s participation in artistic, scientific, and cultural life. Collectors may encounter her work across paintings and works on paper, as well as graphic editions documented in museum collections and print scholarship. Because her output spans different media, dates, subjects, and levels of rarity, identification and comparison should begin with the specific object rather than the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include Cassatt’s oil paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and other works on paper. Commonly encountered subjects include portraits, women in social or private settings, mothers and children, and intimate genre scenes. Her graphic work is also an important area of research, with museum documentation identifying prints made from 1879 to 1911. Edition details, impressions, paper, condition, signatures, and provenance are particularly relevant when evaluating prints or other multiples.

## Market and appraisal context

Cassatt appraisal research should compare an object with works in the same medium, period, subject range, size, and condition. Signature or inscription, edition information for prints, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can materially affect interpretation. Public auction records provide useful comparables, but they do not represent every private sale or resolve authentication and condition questions. Appraisily’s matched records show activity across paintings, works on paper, prints, sculpture or mixed media, and decorative art or editions; results should therefore be compared like for like, with attention to whether reported totals include buyer premiums or fees.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1016
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG22182
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1107.html
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173223
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012368
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/2478969/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027561615
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cassatt
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mary-cassatt/