In the Opera Box (No. 3)

c. 1880

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Mary Cassatt

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.64 × 18.73 cm (8 1/8 × 7 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.81

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 22, ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 27); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 22, ii/iv.

Inscriptions

recto: below image, at right, in graphite: Mary Cassatt; along bottom in graphite in later hand: E1177- NY302 ab R.H.; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: E1177 MOA; at lower right in graphite in later hand: C47

Markings

recto: none; verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b) and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

shield with fleur de lys

Wikidata ID

Q65081025

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