In The Omnibus

Mary Cassatt1891

McNay Art Museum
San Antonio, United States

The Omnibus, a masterful print from Cassatt's 1890-91 suite, shows an increasingly modern Paris. Women ride without the company of a man on an omnibus, an early form of horse-drawn public transportation.

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Title: In The Omnibus
Creator: Mary Cassatt
Date Created: 1891
Physical Dimensions: plate 14 ½ x 10 ½ in.
Type: Print
Rights: Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Margaret Batts Tobin
Medium: Drypoint and aquatint
Art Genre: Japonisme, Transportation
Art Movement: Impressionist, Modernist

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