Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery

1879/1880

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    cancelled etched and aquatinted copper plate

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.8 x 23.4 cm (10 9/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.47.74

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 51, cancelled plate

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1995 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999-2000.

2014

  • Degas/Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2014, no. 38, repro.

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2016, no cat.

2024

  • Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2024.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

1984

  • Reed, Sue Welsh, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984: no. 51, cancelled plate.

Inscriptions

none

Markings

recto: none; verso: at lower left, stamped in plate: M & B [encicled in an oval]

Wikidata ID

Q63571242

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