Chère Laurie,
L'amitié Joepennyenne n'est pas une vaine expression entre nous. J'espère que tu vas bien et que tu passes une belle journée en famille et avec tes amis.
Nous pensons à toi et c'est toujours un plaisir de te retrouver sur FB.
J'aime beaucoup cette peinture, raison pour laquelle je l'ai choisie pour te souhaiter un heureux anniversaire.
A bientôt.
Aloha & Namaste
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Completion Date: c.1879
Style: Impressionism
Genre: portrait
Technique: oil
Material: canvas
Gallery: Leeds City Art Gallery
Mary Cassatt’s sister Lydia was a big part of her life. Neither of them deciding to marry, they lived together in France until Lydia’s death in 1882. While she was alive, Mary used Lydia as a model in many of her paintings, The Cup of Tea being one of them. This painting is more of a genre painting than a portrait, as it represents a social custom that Cassatt revisited many times in her paintings: the taking of a cup of tea. Painted in an impressionistic manner, many art critics viewed the painting as unfinished, due to the fact that Cassatt left small peripheral portions of the canvas unpainted.
