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The phrase underscores how Cassatt’s comprehension of her young subject as an individual of depth and interiority differed from prevailing Victorian views of children, particularly girls, as devoid of contemplation and inner life. Even the artist’s Impressionist peers, considered paragons of modernity, often reduced children to decorative elements in their compositions. It was left to Cassatt to discern some- thing more in representing the stage of life now understood as crucially formative. Cassatt’s arresting painting, at once probing and appealing, is among the most accomplished “confrontations” with what would become her signature subject: children, often female, in various modes of engagement with adults in the bourgeois milieu of the artist and her friends and family.\n","remarks":"AMER2_23-27_WLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"}],"media":[{"id":227803,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA40736","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":227804,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA40721","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":227805,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA40740","isprimary":0,"rank":3,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":227806,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA40749","isprimary":0,"rank":4,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":227807,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA40752","isprimary":0,"rank":5,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":227808,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA40748","isprimary":0,"rank":6,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":3649,"citation":"Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum Saturday, February 4, 2023 - Sunday, January 7, 2024","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2023-02-04","enddate":"2024-01-07","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/3649"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: Europe, France, Paris","code":"Place made","continent":"Europe","subcontinent":null,"country":"France","region":null,"state":null,"city":"Paris","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"https://www.geonames.org/2988507/paris.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2055723,"term":"portraits","aatid":300015637,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2038492,"term":"American","aatid":300107956,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2052977,"term":"paintings","aatid":300033618,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2088264,"term":"girls","aatid":300247581,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2131442,"term":"hats","aatid":300046106,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053145,"term":"oil paintings","aatid":300033799,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2167780,"term":"oil paint","aatid":300015050,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2044653,"term":"canvas","aatid":300014078,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2053145,"classification":"oil paintings"},{"id":2052977,"classification":"paintings"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2038492,"culture":"American"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"43.81"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"38.73"},{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"70.48"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"65.56"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"10.15"}],"packages":[{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":195743,"name":"PUAM_Impressionism and Post-Impressionism"},{"packageid":216464,"name":"image_descriptions_newacquisitions_2021"},{"packageid":203265,"name":"web_ObjectLessons_Sections_08-18_Gender"},{"packageid":206417,"name":"image_descriptions_top250"},{"packageid":213904,"name":"Gallery_23-27(Pavilion7)-American"},{"packageid":278831,"name":"10282025-DAY1-ONVIEW"},{"packageid":197269,"name":"web_highlights -revised 2021"},{"packageid":282448,"name":"Bingo_Faces"},{"packageid":204941,"name":"web_AMchildren_Group_01"},{"packageid":268550,"name":"Web_CA_2025_North American"},{"packageid":205696,"name":"exh_tour_Object_Lessons"},{"packageid":204016,"name":"x-COMPLETE-image_descriptions_American_Art_paintings"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA40736"],"displaymaker":"Mary Cassatt, 1844–1926; born Allegheny City, PA; died Le Mesnil-Theribus, France","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Mary Cassatt (1844–1926; born Allegheny City, PA; died Le Mesnil-Theribus, France), Little Girl in a Large Red Hat, ca. 1881. 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