The Lamp
1890-1891
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: 32.39 × 25.24 cm (12 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)
sheet: 43.8 x 30.5 cm (17 1/4 x 12 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.2762
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 6, iii/iv
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1963
Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1963, no cat.
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, D.C., 1970.
1971
An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 9.
1973
Whistler, Cassatt and Hassam: three American printmakers, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1973.
Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport, CA; Santa Barbara Museum, CA, 1973-1974.
1989
Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1989-1990, no. 6-III, repro.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 144, iii/iii.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 6, iii/iv.
2015
Román, Dulce Maria, et. al. Monet and American Impressionism. Exh. cat. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, 2015
Inscriptions
recto: at lower left in graphite: M.C; at bottom left in graphite [in later hand?]: B; verso: none
Markings
recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art (Lugt 1932d)
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64960372