Repose

c. 1890

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image shows an adult sitting with a child on her lap. Both figures are positioned centrally in the frame. The adult, a woman, has her hair styled back and features a solemn expression. The child has short hair and is looking towards the left. The woman is wearing a long-sleeved dress with a small pattern, while the child is dressed in a sleeveless garment. They are sitting in front of a plain background with vertical panel lines. There are no visible items of jewelry or objects. The artwork is a sketch with minimalist, monochromatic lines providing detail and shading.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.5 × 16.67 cm (9 1/4 × 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2768

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1979, no. 132, v/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

George M. La Monte [1863-1927], Bound Brook, NJ (Lugt 1181c)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • U.S. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France, lent through the Art in Embassies Program, 1966-1968.

1971

  • U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, lent through the Art in Embassies Program, 1971-1973.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 132, v/v.

Inscriptions

recto: below image at right in graphite: Mary Cassatt; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: Nursemaid + child; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: 7414; at lower right in graphite in later hand: FNO; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: [erased, indecipherable]

Markings

recto: Mary Cassatt (Lugt 604); verso: George M. La Monte (Lugt 1181c)

Watermarks

VANDERLEY

Wikidata ID

Q64960385

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