The Corner of the Sofa (No. 3)

c. 1879

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Mary Cassatt

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground etching and aquatint in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30.96 × 22.07 cm (12 3/16 × 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.7.17

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 16, ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1948

  • American Graphic Art from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948.

1950

  • Prints by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950, no cat.

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. 16, ii/iii.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: M.C.

Wikidata ID

Q65081071

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