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1844-1926

Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in a very wealthy environment. His father is a wealthy banker and his mother speaks French fluently. During her youth, she frequently traveled to Europe with her family who settled in Paris in 1851, then in Germany from 1853 to 1855. On this occasion, Mary Cassatt learned French and German. She then returns to Pennsylvania where she follows the courses of the Academy of Fine Arts (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) from 1861 to 1865. At the end of the American Civil War in 1866, she returns to Paris and follows courses in the workshop of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), painter and sculptor of academic and orientalist trendsFrench. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, she joined Pennsylvania then returned to Europe, traveled to Italy and Spain, then settled permanently in Paris in 1873 with her mother and sister Lydia.