The Lamp, 1890-1891

Not on View

Medium

drypoint and softground etching on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 31.6 × 25.2 cm (12 7/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 6, i/iv

Accession Number

1946.21.85

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in image, at lower left, in graphite: Mary Cassatt; verso: at upper right, in graphite, in later hand: No. 138 [underlined]; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: NY E 767 oss; at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: 36464

Marks and Labels

Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Provenance

Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 50); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Hartshorne, Robert
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1989: Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamston, MA, 1989-1990, no. 6-I, repro.

2009: The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2009, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 144, i/iii.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 6, i/iv.

2009: Munroe, Alexandra. The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989. Exh. cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009, fig. 18.