Before the Fireplace (No. 1), c. 1882

Not on View

Medium

softground etching and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 16 x 20.6 cm (6 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

sheet: 21.6 x 30.3 cm (8 1/2 x 11 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Breeskin 1979, no. 64, iii/iii

Accession Number

1949.5.466

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Ep d'Etat; lower right in graphite: Coll Edg Degas; lower left margin in graphite by unknown hand: Cassatt Before the fireplace; lower right margin in graphite by unknown hand: Degas collection

Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, no. 26); (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

1950: Prints by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

1951: Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 23.

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.

1967: Miss Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Graphic Arts, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1967.

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; 2009-2010.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 64, iii/iii.

1996: Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996, p. 126.