Mary
Cassatt
Early Life, Family and Training Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, provides the setting for the birth of Mary Stevenson Cassatt on May 22, 1844. She enters a family of French Huguenot descent, a lineage that brings a sense of cosmopolitanism to her upbringing. Her father, Robert Simpson …
A portrait built from Mary Cassatt's own colours
Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.