title: Portrait of the Artist (Mary Cassatt)
text: # Portrait of the Artist (Mary Cassatt)
  
  Portrait of the Artist is an 1878 self-portrait painting by Mary Cassatt. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
  
  ## Early history and creation
  
  According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he painting is a "watercolour, gouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored wood-pulp paper". It is now in the public domain.
  
  