Credit: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Gift of John Frederick Lewis
The Bacchante, by Mary Cassatt, 1872. In 1877, Edgar Degas saw Cassatt's work exhibited at the Paris Salon and he invited her to join the impressionists. She readily joined him and as a result of the impressionists influence on her work, Cassatt developed a new painting style and subject matter, as she began to favor scenes from contemporary life and abandoned her style of painting colorful costume genre depictions
