Elsie Foster Cassatt

Elizabeth "Elsie" Foster Cassatt Stewart (August 14, 1875 – May 31, 1931) was an American sportswoman and socialite.

[1] Cassatt was described as "a young woman whose every curve speaks of her athletic training and fine physical condition... a modern Diana: she rides, swims, shoots, and plays tennis.

[9] She loaned some of Mary Cassatt's paintings to a major exhibit held at the Pennsylvania Museum in 1927, curated by Louisine Havemeyer.

[10] Elsie Cassatt married stockbroker W. Plunket Stewart in 1902,[11][12] and divorced him in 1930; he soon remarried.

Her daughter Katherine Kelso Stewart married Eric Vicomte de Spoelberch, a Belgian pilot and athlete, in 1932.

A painting of a child in a blue chair, looking to the side, with pale skin and reddish hair.
"Elsie in a Blue Chair" (1883), by Mary Cassatt; the subject was the painter's niece, Elsie Foster Cassatt.