Portrait of the Artist is an 1878 self-portrait painting by Mary Cassatt. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Early history and creation According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he painting is a "watercolour, gouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored wood-pulp paper". It is now in the public domain. References Created via preloaddraft Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017 drafts Paintings in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art