Quietude

c. 1891

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image shows a side profile of a woman holding a small child in her arms. Both are depicted from the waist up. The woman is seated and leaning slightly forward, cradling the child who rests against her chest with one arm around her neck. She has her hair pulled back and tied neatly, revealing her facial profile with closed eyes. The woman wears a long-sleeved garment patterned with small shapes. The child, with short hair and a soft expression, is shown without clothing, curled in the woman's lap. The background is a simple, plain surface without additional objects, emphasizing the figures and their interaction.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.72 × 15.88 cm (10 1/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 37 × 26.9 cm (14 9/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2765

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 139, v/v

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

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

  • U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, lent through the Art in Embassies Program, 1967-1970.

1972

  • U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia, lent through the Art in Embassies Program, 1972-1973.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 139, v/v.

Inscriptions

recto: at lower right in graphite in later hand: Pointe sèche de Mary Cassatt; verso: none

Markings

recto: none; verso: Lessing J. Rosenwald and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64960377

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