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Lilacs in a Window is a painting by the American painter printmaker pastelist and connoisseur Mary Cassatt. It is one of the few still-lifes she executed. It was originally owned by the Parisian art collector Moyse Dreyfus. Cassatt had been introduced to him by her Impressionist friends and he became a friend and early patron. Cassatt included a portrait of him Mr. Moyse Dreyfus in her show at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition of 1879.