The Coiffure is a print produced by American printmaker and painter
Mary Cassatt in 1890–1891. It was part of a series of ten color prints depicting women in everyday activities. Cassatt was inspired to create the piece after viewing a Paris exhibition of
Japanese woodblock prints organized by the
École des Beaux-Arts in April 1890. Cassatt wrote a letter later in the week to her friend and fellow painter,
Berthe Morisot, expressing her fascination with the Japanese prints. Cassatt's piece was partially inspired by the 18th-century print
Takashima Ohisa Using Two Mirrors to Observe Her Coiffure by
Kitagawa Utamaro, which she had in her personal collection. The
National Gallery of Art has exhibited it in 1948, 1950, 1963, and 1970. More recently, the
Guggenheim Museum and
Yokohama Museum of Art exhibited the work in 2009 and 2016, respectively. ==Versions==