The Fitting [recto]

1890-1891

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite over black chalk on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.5 × 30.3 cm (19 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1954.12.7.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1970, no. 807

Associated Artworks

The Fitting [verso]

Mary Cassatt

1890


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1962

  • Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962, no. 123.

  • Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1962.

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.

1981

  • American Prints: Process and Proofs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1981-1982.

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., October 1986.

1989

  • Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1989-1990., no. 10-III, repro.

1992

  • Lessing Rosenwald: An Exemplary Collector, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, 1992.

Bibliography

1970

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 807.

1989

  • Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, pp. 125-126, fig. 9-2.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: MC

Wikidata ID

Q64607655


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