The Mirror, c. 1891

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.5 × 16.8 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)

sheet: 30.5 × 23.7 cm (12 × 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis

Catalogue Raisonné

Breeskin 1979, no. 136, vi/vii

Accession Number

1942.6.32

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: below image, at right, in graphite: Mary Cassatt; at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: E R 566.; verso: at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: B-453 [written upsidedown]

Marks and Labels

recto: in image, at lower right: Mary Cassatt (Lugt 604); verso: Elisabeth Achelis (Lugt 824b)

Exhibition History

1950: Prints by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

1963: American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 47.

1966: American Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966-1967.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 136, vi/vii.