The Lamp

1890-1891

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image depicts a woman seated, with her upper body turned slightly away from the viewer. She has short brown hair, a prominent nose, and slightly pursed lips. She is wearing a pale yellow sleeveless dress and holding a fan in her left hand. A dark green table in front of her holds a pink decorative container, papers, a cup, and a saucer. In the background, there is a large blue lamp with a pink shade, and the wall behind her has a horizontal line detail design.

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery M87

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color drypoint, softground etching, and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32.39 × 25.24 cm (12 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 43.8 x 30.5 cm (17 1/4 x 12 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2762

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

  • Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt from the Rosenwald Collection, 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.

1970

  • Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1970.

1971

  • An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 9.

1973

  • Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport, CA; Santa Barbara Museum, CA, 1973-1974.

  • Whistler, Cassatt and Hassam: three American printmakers, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1973.

1989

  • Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1989-1990, no. 6-III, repro.

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, iii/iv.

2015

  • Román, Dulce Maria, et. al. Monet and American Impressionism. Exh. cat. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, 2015

Inscriptions

recto: at lower left in graphite: M.C; at bottom left in graphite [in later hand?]: B; verso: none

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art (Lugt 1932d)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64960372

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