Lydia and Her Mother at Tea, 1882

Not on View

Medium

softground etching and aquatint in black

Dimensions

plate: 17.78 × 27.94 cm (7 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Breeskin 1979, no. 69, v/v

Accession Number

1949.5.465

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, no. 27); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Whittemore, Harris

Exhibition History

1951: Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 25.

1958: Color Etchings and Aquatints by Mary Cassatt, Ogunquit Museum of Art, ME, 1958.

1963: Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1963.

1964: Prints by Mary Cassatt, organized by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition Service and circulated to 10 venues (Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Norton Gallery & School of Art, Palm Beach, FL; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Charles & Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, OH; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; and A.D. White Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), 1964-1965.

1967: The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt, organized by the Museum of Graphic Art, New York, and circulated to 8 venues (Cooper Union Museum, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Cincinnati Art Museum; University of California, Los Angeles; 1967-1968, no. 16, repro.

2008: Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family, Shelburne Museum, 14 June - 26 October 2008, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 21 November 2008 - 25 January 2009.

2015: Monet and American Impressionism, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, 2015-2016 (shown only in Gainesville and Chattanooga).

Bibliography

1967: Breeskin, Adelyn, and Donald H. Karshan. The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt. New York, Museum of Graphic Art, 1967, p. 24, no. 16.

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 69, v/v.

2008: Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family (Exh. cat. Shelburne Museum and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 2008-2009). Shelburne, 2008.

2015: Román, Dulce M. Monet and American Impressionism. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 2015.