Lydia and Her Mother at Tea

1882

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Two individuals are seated closely together. The person on the left is partially obscured by a cup while drinking, and they have short hair. The individual on the right is in profile, with identifiable facial features and short, neatly combed hair. Both are wearing dark formal clothing, with a textured background and table setting between them consisting of ornate silverware on a circular tray.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground etching and aquatint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.78 × 27.94 cm (7 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.5.465

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 69, v/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, no. 27); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1951

  • Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 25.

1958

  • Color Etchings and Aquatints by Mary Cassatt, Ogunquit Museum of Art, ME, 1958.

1963

  • Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt from the Rosenwald Collection, 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

  • 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. 16, repro.

2008

  • Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family, Shelburne Museum, 14 June - 26 October 2008, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 21 November 2008 - 25 January 2009.

2015

  • Monet and American Impressionism, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, 2015-2016 (shown only in Gainesville and Chattanooga).

Bibliography

1967

  • Breeskin, Adelyn, and Donald H. Karshan. The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt. New York, Museum of Graphic Art, 1967, p. 24, no. 16.

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 69, v/v.

2008

  • Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family (Exh. cat. Shelburne Museum and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 2008-2009). Shelburne, 2008.

2015

  • Román, Dulce M. Monet and American Impressionism. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 2015.

Wikidata ID

Q65081073

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