Quietude

c. 1891

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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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

    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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