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c. 1871 - Portrait of Mrs. Currey; Sketch of Mr. Cassatt, (oil on canvas, 32 in × 27 in), private collection (Smithsonian Institution record)
Mrs. Currey had worked for the Cassatt family. When Mary Cassatt returned home from Paris at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war, she asked Mrs. Currey to pose for her and gave her the sketch. Superimposed (the canvas turned upside down) is a sketch of her father.
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1878-79 - Woman Reading, (oil on canvas, 32 in × 23.5 in), Joslyn Art Museum
The sitter is generally identified as Cassatt's sister Lydia. The exhibition catalogue titles it Portrait of Lydia Cassatt, the Artist's Sister, and notes there is another version elaborated by a view through a window. The museum page comments that the heightened coloration and loose brushwork is consistent with Impressionism, and that the influence of photography and Japanese prints can be seen in the cropping and diagonal composition.
