Mary Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Her father was a high-end real estate and investment broker, and so her family had a high social standing. Her classes at school, such as homemaking, embroidery, music, sketching, and painting, were meant to prepare her to be a proper wife, but evidentally, she chose another path. Mary enrolled in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts when she was 16. Since women weren't encouraged to pursue careers at this time, he male classmates and teachers weren't very kind to her. She also found that the curriculum was too slow paced and inadequate for her liking, so she left the school and moved to Europe, where she had lived for a few years as a young girl, to study the work of the Old Masters on her own, firsthand. She left for Paris in 1866 against her parents wishes. She studied at the privately at the Louvre, until 1868, when a portrait of hers was selected at the Paris Salon, an annual exhibition run by the French government. She submitted the piece under the name Mary Stevenson.
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