Mimi Holding a Japanese Fan

c. 1889

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image shows an upper half view of a person in a seated position. The person is facing forward and slightly towards the left, with their left arm resting on a surface. Their face is shown in profile, revealing fine facial features and short hair. The clothing of the person appears to be light. The background has a textured pattern with dot-like formations on the right and linear, striated patterns on the left. There are no visible jewelry items or objects. The etching is signed "M. C." in the bottom right corner.

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery M88

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.85 × 21.27 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.83

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 117

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1964

  • Prints by Mary Cassatt, organized by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition Service and circulated to 10 venues (Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Norton Gallery & School of Art, Palm Beach, FL; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Charles & Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, OH; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; and A.D. White Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), 1964-1965.

1967

  • Miss Mary Cassatt: Paintings and the Graphic Arts, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1967.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 117.

Inscriptions

recto: below image, at right, in graphite: M.C.; at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: R.H. A58475; verso:

Markings

recto: none; verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Watermarks

shield with horn / VANDERLEY

Wikidata ID

Q65081027

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