Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

Mary Cassatt - Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Voting period ends on 24 Aug 2014  at 11:10:23 (UTC)
 * Reason:Described by Germaine Greer as Mary Cassatt's "first real stunner". The diagonal composition and cropping after the Japanism fashion of the time were heavily influenced by Edgar Degas, venerated by Cassatt, who worked on the picture. The dog is a Brussels terrier, a breed that Cassat kept as companion all her life. This first one was purchased for her by Degas, who obtained it from his friend (and dog lover) Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic. Degas' curious painting of him as a flâneur has often been described as influenced by photography in its treatment of negative space, also a feature of Cassatt's painting. The image is amongst the 25,000 or so high resolution images made available last year for educational purposes by the  National Gallery of Art, Washington
 * Articles in which this image appears:Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Mary Cassatt


 * Support as nominator – Coat of Many Colours (talk) 11:10, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak support. I can't say I rate it as a work of art, but what the hell do I know? Weak only because the reproduction could be a bit bigger given the size of the original. J Milburn (talk) 15:47, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment — There's something awkward about this composition, particularly the subject. Further, it doesn't appear at Mary Cassatt, which includes 27 other works, mostly pleasant, by Cassatt. Sca (talk) 15:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 11:13, 24 August 2014 (UTC)