Dans l'omnibus (In The Omnibus), from the series Ten Color Aquatints on the Daily Life of French Women
Mary Cassatt, Dans l'omnibus (In The Omnibus), from the series Ten Color Aquatints on the Daily Life of French Women, 1891, drypoint and color aquatint on paper, Bequest of Winslow B. Ayer, public domain, 35.41
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- Title
Dans l'omnibus (In The Omnibus), from the series Ten Color Aquatints on the Daily Life of French Women
- Related Titles
original language: Dans l'omnibus
series (original language): Ten Color Aquatints on the Daily Life of French Women
translated: In The Omnibus
- Artist
- Date
1891
- Medium
drypoint and color aquatint on paper
- State
3rd state
- Catalogue Raisonné
Breeskin 145
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
plate: 12 1/8 in x 9 5/8 in; sheet: 14 in x 9 15/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: Mary Cassatt, graphite, bottom right
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Bequest of Winslow B. Ayer
- Accession Number
35.41
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Mary Cassatt highlights a fashionable young mother, nanny, and a sumptuously dressed child traveling across the Seine River in this drypoint and color aquatint, In the Omnibus. It is perhaps the finest of the 10 color prints she published between 1890 and 1891 devoted to the daily lives of French women. By situating the women on public transportation, Cassatt signals their modernity. The elegant clothing of the mother—including her exquisitely crafted hat—hint at her position in the upper classes in contrast to the more plainly dressed nanny, who dutifully attends to the child. Cassatt, who was born in Pittsburgh, was one of the few American artists active with the French Impressionists; she was particularly close to Edgar Degas, who invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists in 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1886.
- Exhibitions
1998 Essay on Impressionism Portland Art Museum
1999 Early Modern Prints from the Permanent Collection Portland Art Museum
2003 Paris to Portland: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masters in Portland Collections Portland Art Museum
2004 Daumier to Lautrec: French Prints and Drawings Portland Art Museum