The Mirror

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: 22.5 × 16.8 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 30.5 × 23.7 cm (12 × 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.6.32

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 136, vi/vii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Prints by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

1963

  • American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 47.

1966

  • American Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966-1967.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 136, vi/vii.

Inscriptions

recto: below image, at right, in graphite: Mary Cassatt; at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: E R 566.; verso: at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: B-453 [written upsidedown]

Markings

recto: in image, at lower right: Mary Cassatt (Lugt 604); verso: Elisabeth Achelis (Lugt 824b)

Watermarks

fragment of shield

Wikidata ID

Q64960321

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