Lydia at Afternoon Tea

1882

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image shows a person sitting in a chair with a tea set on a table in front of them. The person's upper body is visible from the side, and they appear relaxed. The individual's face is not detailed, and they are wearing a dark garment. The chair has a patterned fabric, and the background is textured with light and dark contrasts.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground etching and aquatint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.97 × 19.84 cm (5 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.86

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 68, iv/v

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1951

  • Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 24.

1963

  • American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA, 1963, no. 44.

1967

  • The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt, organized by the Museum of Graphic Art, New York, and circulated to 8 venues (Cooper Union Museum, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Cincinnati Art Museum; University of California, Los Angeles; 1967-1968, no. 15, repro.

Bibliography

1967

  • Breeskin, Adelyn, and Donald H. Karshan. The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt. New York, Museum of Graphic Art, 1967, p. 24, no. 15.

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 68, iv/v.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: M.C.

Wikidata ID

Q65081033

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