A Portrait of the Artist's Mother
c. 1889-1890
Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Artwork overview
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Medium
color softground etching and aquatint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 25.24 × 17.94 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
sheet: 35.2 x 21 cm (13 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1946.21.90
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 4, iv/iv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 68); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1946
New Acquisitions in the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1946.
1950
Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.
1958
Color Etchings and Aquatints by Mary Cassatt, Ogunquit Museum, ME, 1958.
1963
Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1963.
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 Graphic Arts, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1967.
1989
Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamston, MA, 1989-1990, no. 4-IV, repro.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
2025
Mary Cassatt at Work, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 2024-2025 (shown only in San Francisco), no repro.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 122, vi/vii.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 4, iv/iv.
1996
Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996, p. 165.
2024
Thompson, Jennifer A. and Garber, Laurel, editors. Mary Cassatt at Work. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2024: 288.
Inscriptions
recto: below image, at right, in graphite: Mary Cassatt; along bottom edge, in graphite, in later hand: 2 NY 609 H. H. moa; verso: at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: 13
Markings
recto: none; verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)
Watermarks
ANDERLEY
Wikidata ID
Q65081041