Although critics claimed that Cassatt's colors were too bright and that her portraits were too accurate to be flattering to the subjects, her work was not savaged as was Monet's, whose circumstances were the most desperate of all the Impressionists at that time.
Selvom kritikere klandrede Cassatt for at bruge for lyse farver og for, at hendes portrætter var for præcise, så de ikke var flatterende for de portrætterede, blev hendes værker ikke nedsablet som fx Monets, hvis situation var den mest svære af alle impressionisterne på den tid.