A Woman and a Girl Driving

A Woman and a Girl Driving is an oil on canvas painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, created in 1881. It depicts the artist's sister Lydia alongside Odile Fèvre, the niece of Edgar Degas, in a carriage traveling through the Bois de Boulogne.[1] Scholars have seen the painting as a representation of growing female autonomy in the Parisian public sphere, where driving one's own carriage signified independence. The painting is held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[2][3][4]

A Woman and a Girl Driving
ArtistMary Cassatt
Year1881
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions89.7 cm × 130.5 cm (35.3 in × 51.4 in)
LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

References
  1. "A Woman and a girl driving". Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  2. "A Woman and a girl driving". Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  3. Thomas, G. M. (2006). "Women in public: the display of felinity in the parks of Paris". The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Manchester: 32-48.
  4. Yeh, S. Fillin (1976). "Mary Cassatt's images of women". Art Journal. 35: 363.
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