The Caress, c. 1891

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.69 × 14.61 cm (7 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.)

sheet: 35.1 × 19.8 cm (13 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis

Catalogue Raisonné

Breeskin 1979, no. 140, v/v

Accession Number

1942.6.31

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: below image at left in graphite: M C; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: A91030; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: B-452 [upsidedown]; at lower right in graphite in later hand: NO; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: 2966 / c ry[indecipherable] / v. rsen

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Elisabeth Achelis (Lugt 824b) and National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1963: American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 40.

1966: American Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1966-67, no cat.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 140, v/v.