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Cassatt had befriended Degas and Pissarro years earlier when she joined Pissarro's newly formed French Impressionist group and gave up opportunities to exhibit in the United States.

She and Pissarro were often treated as " two outsiders " by the Salon since neither were French or had become French citizens.

However, she was " fired up with the cause " of promoting Impressionism and looked forward to exhibiting " out of solidarity with her new friends ".

Toward the end of the Impressionist period, she began to avoid Degas, against whose " wicked tongue " she was unable to defend herself.

Instead, she came to prefer the company of " the gentle Camille Pissarro ", with whom she could speak frankly about the changing attitudes toward art.

She once described him as a teacher " that could have taught the stones to draw correctly.