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lower right: Mary Cassatt

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Provenance

Purchased April 1896 from the artist by (Durand-Ruel, Paris); sold August 1911 to Baron de Herzog.[1] Marczell von Nemes, Budapest, by 1912;[2] (his sale, Galerie Manzi Joyant, Paris, 18 June 1913, no. 84). Sold 17 December 1929 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[3] bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1] Letter of 26 March 1930 from Durand-Ruel to Mrs. Chester Dale, in NGA curatorial files.

[2] The painting was included in a 1912 exhibition of his collection in Dusseldorf.

[3] The Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files provide the date of purchase, and give the source as "Paul Rosenberg". Press coverage (Art News of 28 December 1929, and Art Digest of 1 January 1930) reported that the purchase was from Wildenstein & Co.

Exhibition History

1903
The Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Washington Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1903, no. 20.
1907
102nd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelhia, 1907, no. 124.
1931
Portraits of Women. Loan Exhibition. Romanticism to Surrealism, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 18, as Portrait, La Loge.
1932
American Painting and Sculpture, 1862-1932, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932-1933, no. 14.
1937
An Exhibition of American Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, The Union League Club, New York, 1937, no. 30.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
1970
Mary Cassatt 1844-1926, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 28, repro.
1998
Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999, no. 20, repro., as Women in a Loge (shown only in Washington).
2010
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1923
Mauclair, Camille. Les Maîtres de l'impressionnisme. Paris, 1923:252
1931
"Portraiture: Examples at the French Museum and Elsewhere." The New York Herald Tribune (25 January 1931): section VIII, 8.
1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 41, repro.
1942
"The Golden Years of France: The Latest Dale Loans to the National Gallery of Art." Magazine of Art 35, no. 5 (May 1942):178
1944
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 172, color repro.
1944
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 41, repro.
1946
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1946:repro.
1953
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 51, repro.
1956
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 54, repro.
1960
The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 6.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 328, repro.
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 81, repro.
1966
Sweet, F. Miss Mary Cassatt. University of Oklahoma Press, 1966:49-50
1970
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, 1970: no. 121, repro.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 22, repro.
1973
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. rev. ed. New York, 1973:473, repro.
1976
Yeh, Susan Fillin. "Mary Cassatt's Images of Women." Art Journal 35, no. 4 (Summer 1976):359+, repro.
1980
Getlein, Frank. Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints. New York, 1980:42
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 34, repro.
1980
Pollock, Griselda. Mary Cassatt. London and New York, 1980:68, repro.
1980
Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 126, repro.
1981
Williams 1981, repro. 135, 138-139, color repro. 135.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 564, no. 859, color repro.
1988
Herbert, Robert L. Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society. New Haven, 1988:99
1988
Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 148, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 39, repro.
1994
Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt: A Life. New York, 1994:145, repro.
1994
Weinberg, H. Barbara, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry. American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915. New York, 1994:207, repro.
1996
Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. 1996:repro.
1997
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism, 1997: no. 143, repro.
2006
Søndergaard, Sidsel Maria. Women in Impressionism: From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman. Exh. cat. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Milan, 2006: 194 fig. 164.

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