The Picture Book (No. 1)

c. 1901

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image shows a close-up view of two individuals' upper bodies. The person on the right is slightly turned, with their head close to the head of the person on the left. Both have their eyes closed. The person on the right has styled back hair, while the person on the left has shoulder-length hair. They are wearing clothes with high necklines and appear to be holding an object between them. The background is plain, and the edges of the image are framed, directing attention to the pair's serene expressions and close contact.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.07 × 14.92 cm (8 11/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1954.12.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 176, i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

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

  • Mother and Child, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, 1967, no. 31.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 176, i/ii.

Inscriptions

recto: below image at right in graphite: M.C.; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: 276.

Markings

none

Watermarks

to be identified

Wikidata ID

Q65362402

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