Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery

1879/1880

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    soft-ground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.8 x 23.4 cm (10 9/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.5 x 30.6 cm (16 5/16 x 12 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3366

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 51, State ix/ix

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edgar Degas, Paris (Lugt 657). George M. La Monte (1873-1927), Bound Brook, NJ [Lugt L.1181c]

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to 11 venues (California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Museum of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN; and Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN), 1950-1952, no cat.

1955

  • Edgar Degas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1955, no cat.

1960

  • Loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1960, no. 119.

1968

  • L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 262, repro.

1971

  • An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 15.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, repro.

2004

  • The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.

2014

  • Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

1984

  • Reed, Sue Welsh, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984: no. 51, state ix/ix.

Inscriptions

recto: in graphite, in later hand, along bottom: D30 D30 / K827 Au Louvre: Musée des Antiques 207 A53; verso: in graphite, in later hand, at lower center: S [circled] / G; in graphite, in later hand, at lower right: HCO

Markings

recto: none; verso: at lower right, stamped in red: ATELIER / ED. DEGAS (Lugt 657); at lower left, stamped in black: George M. La Monte (Lugt L.1181c)

Watermarks

ARC [fragment]

Wikidata ID

Q64955687

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