A Portrait of the Artist's Mother
c. 1889-1890
Artist, American, 1844 - 1926
Artwork overview
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Medium
softground etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1949.5.468
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 4, ii/iv
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
2025
Mary Cassatt at Work, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 2024-2025 (shown only in San Francisco).
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.
2024
Thompson, Jennifer A. and Garber, Laurel, editors. Mary Cassatt at Work. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2024: 287.
Inscriptions
recto: below image, at right, in graphite: Mary Cassatt; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: 3 NY 558; verso: none
Markings
none
Watermarks
oval with seated figure holding a spear and shield, mounted by a crown
Wikidata ID
Q65081085