The Picture Book (No. 1)

c. 1901

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 31.3 × 20.2 cm (12 5/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1954.12.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1970, no. 844

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

  • Prints and Drwaings by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1963, no cat.

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.

Bibliography

1970

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 844.

1991

  • Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. London, 1991: no. 22a.

1996

  • Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996, p. 267.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: M.C

Markings

stamped center verso in black ink: NGA [logo] / LRJ

Wikidata ID

Q64607676

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