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: 43.3 × 27.9 cm (17 1/16 × 11 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.2741
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 5, xi/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.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 143, ix/xi.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 5, xi/xvii.
Inscriptions
recto: at lower left in graphite in later hand: R; verso: at upper left in graphite in later hand: 1546 / B77
Markings
recto: none; verso: Rosenwald & National Gallery of Art
Watermarks
lily and crown [Van Gelder Zonen] and partial VGZ
Wikidata ID
Q64960335