A Portrait of the Artist's Mother, c. 1889-1890

Not on View

Medium

softground etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.24 × 17.94 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

sheet: 35.5 x 21.1 cm (14 x 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 4, ii/iv

Accession Number

1949.5.468

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: below image, at right, in graphite: Mary Cassatt; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: 3 NY 558; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, no. 38); (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

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

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. 4-II, repro.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 122, ii/vii.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 4, ii/iv.