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Mary Cassatt

Afternoon Tea Party, 1890-1891

Not on View

Medium

color drypoint and aquatint with touches of gold metallic paint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34.77 × 26.35 cm (13 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

sheet: 43.5 × 30.4 cm (17 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 13, iv/v

Accession Number

1946.21.77

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

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Inscription

recto: below image, at right, in graphite: Imprimée par l'artiste et M. Leroy / Mary Cassatt / (25 épreuves); verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: A 78416 / 13764; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: CO xv [underlined]

Marks and Labels

recto: Mary Cassatt (Lugt 604) and Roger Marx (Lugt 2229); verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b) and National Gallery of Art (Lugt 1932d)

Provenance

Roger Marx [1859-1913], Paris (Lugt 2229); Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 37); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Hartshorne, Robert
Marx, Roger
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1950: Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

1951: Mary Cassatt and her Parisian friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 44.

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

1962: Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962, no. 140.

1963: Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 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.

1965: Paintings and Sculpture by Americans of Our Times, Museum of Art of Ogunquit, ME, 1965, no cat.

1972: A Selection of Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME, 1972.

1973: Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Museum, CA, 1973-1974.

1977: Prints of Paris: The 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1977.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 151, iv/iv.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 13, iv/v.