Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

1878

Oil on canvas, 89.5 × 129.8 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington

The big blue chair and the sprawling girl sit right of center; a small dark dog in a matching chair and an open stretch of floor answer them at left.

Cassatt moved the dog from the floor up to the chair, the National Gallery of Art found.
She wrote that Degas advised her; he added the room's corner, a wide diagonal that deepens the space.

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Image: National Gallery of Art, Washington · Open access, public domain (NGA)