Mimi Holding a Japanese Fan

c. 1889

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.85 × 21.27 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.83

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 117


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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 the Graphic Arts, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1967.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 117.

Inscriptions

recto: below image, at right, in graphite: M.C.; at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: R.H. A58475; verso:

Markings

recto: none; verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Watermarks

shield with horn / VANDERLEY

Wikidata ID

Q65081027


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