The Crocheting Lesson

c. 1902

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image shows a woman seated, holding a piece of cloth, and a child leaning against her. The woman has dark, pinned-up hair and a serene expression, while the child has short dark hair and eyes closed. Both are wearing simple clothing.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on light blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 43.97 × 26.67 cm (17 5/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2767

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 178, ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1951

  • Mary Cassatt and her Parisian friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 47.

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. 178, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate at lower left: Mary Cassatt [reversed]; below image at left in graphite: 40/50 Papier bleu ancien Six [?] epreuves; below image at right in graphite: Mary Cassatt; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: 758751/axx-

Markings

recto: in image, at lower right: L'Estampe Nouvelle (Lugt 886); verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

to be identified [Auverge watermark and countermark of grapes]

Wikidata ID

Q64960383

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