The Caress

c. 1891

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.69 × 14.61 cm (7 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 35.1 × 19.8 cm (13 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.6.31

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 140, v/v

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

  • American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 40.

1966

  • American Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1966-67, no cat.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 140, v/v.

Inscriptions

recto: below image at left in graphite: M C; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: A91030; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: B-452 [upsidedown]; at lower right in graphite in later hand: NO; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: 2966 / c ry[indecipherable] / v. rsen

Markings

recto: none; verso: Elisabeth Achelis (Lugt 824b) and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

VANDERLEY

Wikidata ID

Q64960320

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