Mary Cassatt was born #OTD (22 May 1844 - 15 June 1926). The cute #dog in her famous painting Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878) is Baptiste, a Brussels Griffon she got through her good friend & fellow #Impressionist Edgar Degas. She became a devotee to the breed thereafter & you can find them in a number of her other works! (The girl was a daughter of a friend of Degas' too.)
National Gallery of Art DC: https://nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.61368.html
#DogsInArt #WomenArtists