Refusing to pose (Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair) @smarthistory-art-history

Refusing to pose (Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair) @smarthistory-art-history

Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Are we drawn to this painting because it’s so expressive of a feeling that children express but adults try not to?

Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878 (The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).

Refusing to pose (Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair)

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