Painting and Sculpture

In the Loge

In the Loge, also known as At the Opera, is an 1878 impressionist painting by the American artist Mary Cassatt. The oil-on-canvas painting is currently in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which also holds a preliminary drawing for the work. The painting displays a bourgeois woman in a loge at the opera house looking through her opera glasses, while a man in the background looks at her. The woman's costume and fan make clear her upper class status. Art historians see the painting as commentary on the role of gender, looking, and power in the social spaces of the nineteenth century.

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• ▸Drawing the Eel
• ▸Arisaema dracontium
• ▸Defeat of the Spanish Armada

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