Margot Leaning against Reine's Knee

c. 1902

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 50.2 × 31.6 cm (19 3/4 × 12 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.73

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1970, no. 865

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

H.M.P., Paris, France; (Parke-Bernet, New York, Feb. 14, 1980, no. 758); Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, CA, 1980; acquired 1991 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • International tour with works from The Armand Hammer Collection from 1980-1987 (25 venues starting with the Corcoran Gallery and School of Art, Washington, D.C.)

1987

  • Master Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1987.

1988

  • Nineteenth-Century Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989, no cat.

1989

  • Master Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection: An Inaugural Celebration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989, no cat.

  • Master Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989, no cat.

1990

  • Genre Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1990-1991, no cat.

1992

  • Hammer Collection rotation, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992-1993, no cat.

Bibliography

1970

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 865.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: M.C; upper center in blue crayon by unknown hand: PH / 27

Wikidata ID

Q64607684

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