The Lamp

1890-1891

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color drypoint and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32.4 x 25.2 cm (12 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.6 x 31.1 cm (16 3/8 x 12 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.249

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 6, iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1936

  • Mary Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, 1936, no. 39.

1965

  • Graphic Arts from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1965.

1967

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

1998

  • Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999, no. 57 (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 144, iii/iii.

1989

  • Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 6, iv/iv.

1998

  • Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman. Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999: 83, no. 57.

2009

  • Munroe, Alexandra. The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989. Exh. cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009, fig. 19.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Imprimée par l'artiste et M. Leroy

Watermarks

MBM

Wikidata ID

Q65511205

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