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Mary Cassatt

1844 - 1926

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Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Cassatt has received more than 2,014,215 page views. Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Mary Cassatt is the 89th most popular painter (up from 115th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from United States (up from 262nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Painter.

Mary Cassatt was a painter who is most famous for her paintings of mothers and children.

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  • 76.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Mary Cassatt ranks 89 out of 2,023. Before her are Canaletto, Pietro Perugino, Berthe Morisot, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Honoré Daumier, and Duccio. After her are Paolo Uccello, Rogier van der Weyden, Francis Picabia, Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Signac, and Andrei Rublev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Mary Cassatt ranks 12. Before her are Mehmed V, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Bernadette Soubirous, Henri Rousseau, Ilya Repin, and Umberto I of Italy. After her are Ludwig Boltzmann, Alexandra of Denmark, Peter I of Serbia, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Friedrich Ratzel, and Pablo de Sarasate. Among people deceased in 1926, Mary Cassatt ranks 8. Before her are Antoni Gaudí, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mehmed VI, Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, and Rudolf Christoph Eucken. After her are Felix Dzerzhinsky, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Camillo Golgi, Sunjong of Korea, Symon Petliura, and Emil Kraepelin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Cassatt ranks 191 out of 20,380. Before her are Sigourney Weaver (1949), Robert Redford (1936), James Madison (1751), Gregory Peck (1916), Scatman John (1942), and Louis Sullivan (1856). After her are Leonard Bernstein (1918), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Mel Gibson (1956), George Lucas (1944), Brigham Young (1801), and Jon Voight (1938).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Mary Cassatt ranks 2. Before her are Jackson Pollock (1912). After her are Man Ray (1890), Edward Hopper (1882), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Grant Wood (1891), Richard Serra (1939), Norman Rockwell (1894), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), Joseph Kosuth (1945), and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834).

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