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The Tea is a painting of two women having tea by the American Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. The role of gender in the painting has been the subject of differing interpretations among art historians. Griselda Pollock has described the confined interior as an evocation of the spatial and social constraints placed on women at the time.[1] Norma Broude has asked, however, whether the work might contain "possibilities for empowerment," showing the agency that women exercised through sociability.[2]

The Tea
Artist	Mary Cassatt
Year	1879-1880
Medium	Oil on canvas
Location	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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