Kneeling in an Armchair

c. 1903

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint in black blue-green laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.85 × 24.13 cm (11 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 34.29 × 26.04 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.136.189

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 186 only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. V. Allison & Co., New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1982, Washington, DC, no. 3

1983

  • Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Philadelphia, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV, 1983

1984

  • La Femme, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, 1984-1985

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 186.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Mary Cassatt; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Maxwell Fund / 49.29

Watermarks

[cornucopia and grapes]

Wikidata ID

Q77011698

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