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Photograph of Mary Cassatt

1844: Birth of Mary Stevenson Cassatt near Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. She is a daughter of a wealthy businessman. Before she is 10 years old, she visits numerous European capitals.

1851: She lives with her parents in Paris, and the following year she lives in Berlin.

1855: Her family goes back to the U. S. A

1860–65: Mary Cassatt studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts despite her parents’ objections.

1866: She goes back to Paris where she copies old masters in museums, especially in the Louvre. Jean-Léon Gérôme accepts her as a student.

1868: She visits Barbizon and is very eager to study its style. Mandolin Player is accepted by the Salon jury

1869: She is rejected by the Salon of Academic Art along with Cézanne, Monet and Sisley. Bazille, Degas, Pissarro and Renoir each have one work accepted.

1871–72: She lives with her mother in Rome, as do many American artists at this time, and travels throughout Europe: Italy, Spain, France etc.

1873–74: Creation of Salon des refusés. One of her paintings, Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter, is accepted by the Salon in Paris. She signs it “Mary Stevenson-Cassatt” using her middle name.

1874: Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. exhibition, which is the first Impressionism show, takes place in Nadar’s studio, 35 boulevard des Capucines. Cassatt, abroad, misses this event.

1877: Degas invites her to exhibit with the Impressionists. She also advises Louisine Havemeyer in buying Degas and other impressionists’ paintings.

1878: Cassatt and Pissarro have a consistent correspondence indicating that they have a long friendship and professional collaboration. Cassatt admires Pissarro’s work.

1879: Her work hangs in the Impressionism show. She begins a long friendship with Berthe Morisot and is very close to Degas. The latter asks Cassatt, Pissarro and Bracquemond to contribute to Le Jour et la Nuit. She remains an active Impressionism member until 1886 and buys several impressionist paintings especially for her brother, Alexander.

1882: Her sister Lydia dies.

1886: Her style evolves and she no longer identifies herself with any movement.

1890: She exhibits series of dry-points and aquatints and pastels in Durand-Ruel exhibition. She is strongly influenced by Japonese printmaking.

1890–1900: She is very active as an adviser to numerous art collectors.

1904: She receives the Légion d’Honneur for her contribution to the arts.

1926: She dies blind near Paris at the age of 82 years.

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