Daily Dose Of Art: The cup of tea

"The Cup of Tea" by Mary Cassatt, 1880-1881

Mary Cassatt, one of the French Impressionists, presented this painting in the 1881 Impressionist exhibition. The artist was famous for portraying the ordinary events of everyday life like we see here. Taking afternoon tea was a social ritual for many upper-middle-class women. Cassatt the artist made that ritual the subject of a series of works painted around 1880 when she had been living abroad for the better part of a decade. Her model for this canvas was her sister, Lydia, who had moved to Paris, along with their parents, in 1877 and often posed for her.

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This makes me think about how unknown are female artists, I had no idea about Mary Cassatt and she was so talented! Maybe the fact that she was a feminist might've contributed to her lack of recognition.