The Bath
1890-1891
Mary Cassatt
Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Artwork overview
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Medium
color drypoint, softground etching, and aquatint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 32.07 × 24.77 cm (12 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
sheet: 39.1 × 29.2 cm (15 3/8 × 11 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.2736
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 5, iv/xvii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1866 - 1939), Paris. (Jean Goriany, New York); purchased 1941 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1951
Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 36.
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. 49.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 143, v/xi.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 5, iv/xvii.
Inscriptions
recto: below image, at left in graphite: M C; at bottom center in graphite in later hand: C; verso: at upper left in graphite in later hand: 1546 / BPT
Markings
recto: none; verso: Rosenwald & National Gallery of Art
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64960325