Someone’s Creepin’ at the Opera

The real question is how did the artist draw a picture of her looking at something but also being stalked by a man? Did she know that he was there? Did she just imagine it? Just how really did she get the picture?

Just like in the painting

The Facts

  • In the Loge, at the Opera
  • Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)
  • circa 1878
  • Material: Oil on canvas
  • The Hayden Collection – The Charles Henry Hayden Fund (10.35)
  • Suzanne and Terrance Murray Gallery (Gallery 226)
Someone’s creepin’ on the creeper

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