Lydia Crocheting in Garden at Marly, Mary Cassatt

Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (1880) by Mary Cassatt is a vintage impressionism fine art portrait painting. Lydia (Mary Cassatt's sister) is sitting in the garden at Marly during the summer of 1880 where Mary and her family vacationed. The woman is knitting with her crochet needles and yarn and wearing a beautiful spring bonnet. About the artist: Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American Impressionist painter who often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.