Musée No:397.038 college Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum

Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art - 2001

especially linked to the Pre Raphaelite movement

He was one of the first travelling painters to arrive in Mexico after independence

She wrote the illustrated British Sea Weeds

Edward Harrison May Jr

Musée No:397.038 college Acquired by the Metropolitan MuseumChild in a Straw Hat Artist: Mary Cassat Date: 1886 Mary Cassat, 1844 1926, was an American painter and printmaker who lived much of her life in France. She was a friend of Edgar Degas who had a considerable influence on her style. She was part of and exhibited with the Impressionists. She specialised in painting mothers and their children and the tender bonds between the two. We don't know who this little girl is but unusually for Mary's models she