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MARY CASSATT Child in a Bonnet.
Color pastels on buff laid paper. 302x215 mm; 11 3/4x8 1/4 inches.. Ex-collection Mathilde Valet, Paris 1931, with the ink stamp (Lugt 2665a, verso).
Mathilde Valet was Cassatt's beloved housekeeper and close companion. A longtime maid of the artist's family, she was hired around 1882 and by the time Cassatt's vision had largely deteriorated, in the early 1920s, was in complete charge of the artist's household and personal affairs. Valet and her family, Alsatian Germans, were well educated and spoke several languages, and the mutual respect between Valet and Cassatt allowed them to run the household smoothly and effectively. The year after Cassatt's death, an anonymous sale was held at Hôtel Drouot in Paris featuring many of Cassatt's artworks bequeathed to Valet.
