Reine and Margot Seated on a Sofa (No. 2)

c. 1902

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image depicts a woman with a young girl on her lap. The woman is seated, leaning slightly forward with her head tilted down towards the girl. Her facial features are soft, with closed eyes and a slight smile. Her hair is styled in a neat updo and she is wearing a simple, long-sleeved garment. The child is cradled in her arms, gazing up at the woman's face. The girl's hair is short and straight, falling just below her ears, and she wears a short-sleeved dress. The background is minimal and abstract, with just a few lines suggesting the outline of a window or a wall.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 43.02 × 32.7 cm (16 15/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2766

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 177

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

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.

1965

  • U.S. Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, lent through the Art in Embassies Program, 1965-1968 and 1970.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 177.

Inscriptions

recto: below image at right in graphite: Mary Cassatt; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: EE844 2/130; verso: none

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64960381

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