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    A young boy with pale skin, wearing a burgundy-red suit and floppy hat, stands facing and looking at us with a gray terrier dog at his side in this vertical portrait painting. The boy has large, slate-blue eyes, rounded smooth cheeks, a small nose, and his pink bow lips are closed. His thick blond hair falls in waves across his forehead and down to his shoulders. His body is angled slightly to our right and he holds a riding crop with both hands in front of his body. The sheen on his burgundy-red jacket, and knee-length pants suggests they are velvet. A wide, lace collar comes to points on his chest. Lace cuffs peek out at his wrists, and the lower hem of his pants, around his knees, is edged with wide lace. A broad, slightly brighter ruby-red sash wraps around his waist and hangs by his left hip, on our right. His calves are covered in stockings of the same brighter red. His black shoes seem to be tied with a ribbon, but this area is loosely painted. His right hand, to our left, might brush the head of the dog sitting next to the boy’s leg. The dog has shiny, charcoal-gray fur and a black nose, ears, and eyes. The dog sits angled and looking off to our right. They are on a brick-red carpet with dashes of black that suggest a pattern, and an olive-green drape hangs behind them. The portrait is loosely painted throughout, but the brushstrokes are especially visible in the rug, background, and dog. The painting is inscribed near the lower right corner: “Eddy from Aunt Mary.”
    Mary Cassatt, Eddy Cassatt (Edward Buchanan Cassatt), 1875, oil on canvas, Gift from the Family of Col. Edward Buchanan Cassatt, 2015.41.1

    Eddy Cassatt (Edward Buchanan Cassatt)

    Eddy Cassatt (Edward Buchanan Cassatt)

    Mary Cassatt · 1875 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.41.1

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