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Mary Cassatt

The Bath, 1890-1891

Not on View

Medium

color drypoint, softground etching, and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 31.9 x 24.9 cm (12 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

sheet: 36.7 x 27.5 cm (14 7/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 5, xvi/xvii

Accession Number

1943.3.2760

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: X

Marks and Labels

stamped verso in black ink: LJR / National Gallery of Art

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1943 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1958: Color Etchings and Aquatints by Mary Cassatt, Ogunquit Museum, ME, 1958.

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. 34.

1973: Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Museum, CA, 1973-1974.

1973: Whistler, Cassatt and Hassam: three American printmakers, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1973.

2011: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue (shown only in Tokyo and Kyoto).

Bibliography

1967: Breeskin, Adelyn, and Donald H. Karshan. The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt. New York, Museum of Graphic Art, 1967, p. 26, no. 51.

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 143, x/xi.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 5, xvi/xvii.

2010: Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.