Afternoon Tea Party, 1890-1891

Not on View

Medium

drypoint and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

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

sheet: 45.7 x 33.7 cm (18 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

1946.21.78

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: KP [?] 229; verso: at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: A78396; at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: FHX

Marks and Labels

recto: Roger Marx (Lugt 2229); verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Provenance

Roger Marx [1859-1913], Paris; Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 36); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Hartshorne, Robert
Marx, Roger
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1963: American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 37.

Bibliography

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

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