The Banjo Lesson
c. 1893
Artist, American, 1844 - 1926
Artwork overview
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Medium
color drypoint and aquatint with monoprint
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Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Jane C. Carey as an addition to the Addie Burr Clark Memorial Collection
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Dimensions
plate: 29.85 × 23.81 cm (11 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
sheet: 41.9 x 29.2 cm (16 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1959.12.6
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 16, iv/iv
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1986
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.
1989
Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 1989-1990, no. 16-IV (NGA), repro.
2016
Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 56.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 156, iv/iv.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 16, iv/iv.
1996
Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996, p. 222.
2014
Jones, Kimberly A. Degas/Cassat. Exh. Cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2014: 110-111, fig. 11.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: Mary Cassatt
Wikidata ID
Q65362432