Mimi as a Brunette

c. 1889

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.99 × 21.43 cm (10 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 31 × 23.5 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.84

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 116

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Roger Marx [1859-1913], Paris (Lugt 2229); Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 46); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

1967

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

1970

  • Graphics by Contemporary Painters, Allentown Art Memorial, PA, 1970.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 116.

Inscriptions

recto: in composition, at lower right in graphite: Mary Cassatt; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: no 7664; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: Jeune fille à table R. H.; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: Hartshorne 24; at lower center in graphite in later hand: A78292; at lower right in graphite in later hand: WO xv [?] 301

Markings

recto: Roger Marx (Lugt 2229); verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b) and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

fragment of shield

Wikidata ID

Q65081029

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