The Coiffure
1890-1891
Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Artwork overview
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Medium
color drypoint and aquatint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 36.6 x 26.7 cm (14 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
sheet: 43.3 x 30.2 cm (17 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.2758
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 14, v/v
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1948
Amercan Graphic Art from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948.
1950
Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.
1958
Color Etchings and Aquatints by Mary Cassatt, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, 1958.
1963
Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt. From the Rosenwald Collection, 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.
1970
Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.
1973
Whistler, Casstt and Hassam: Three American Printmakers, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1973.
Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 1973-1974.
2002
Defining Influence: Japonisme & the Western Artist, Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Center Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA, 2002.
2006
Women in Impressionism: from Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman., Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 2006 - 2007, no. 10.
2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2009, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 152, iv/iv.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 14, v/v.
2002
McKinny, Gwen M. Defining Influence: Japonisme and the Western Artist. Sweet Briar, VA, 2002.
2006
Søndergaard, Sidsel Maria. Women in Impressionism: from Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman. (Exh. cat. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 2006-2007). Milan, 2006, no. 10.
2009
Munroe, Alexandra. The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989. Exh. cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009.
Inscriptions
recto: at lower left in graphite in later hand: C; verso: none
Markings
recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art (Lugt 1932d)
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64960365