Afternoon Promenade

c. 1881

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image is an etching of a woman standing upright. She is turned slightly to the side with her hands clasped in front of her. The woman has softly rendered facial features and styled hair, partially covered with a cap or bonnet. She wears a long skirt, a dark jacket, and a light-colored scarf around her neck. There is no visible jewelry or objects in her hands. The background is a plain surface that emphasizes the figure.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground etching and aquatint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27.78 × 21.75 cm (10 15/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.7.16

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 33, ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

  • Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 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.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 33, ii/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q65081067

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