The Black Hat

c. 1890

Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pastel on tan wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 61 x 45.5 cm (24 x 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.81

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Breeskin 1970, no. 177

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1895

  • Exposition of Paintings, Pastels, and Etchings by Miss Mary Cassatt, Durand-Ruel, New York, 1895.

1947

  • Mary Cassatt, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY, 1947, no. 20.

1953

  • Mary Cassatt (1845-1927), Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1953, no. 10.

1962

  • Delacroix to Gauguin: Ten Portraits, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1962.

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 119, repro.

1970

  • Mary Cassatt 1844-1926, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970, no. 45, repro.

1986

  • Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist

1999

  • An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

2016

  • in Celebration of Paul Mellon. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2016.

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce; Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition 1941-1966. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966: 119.

1970

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 177.

1976

  • Stebbins, Theodore E. American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Harper and Row, 1976, p. 232, f ig. 192.

Inscriptions

lower right in violet pastel: Mary Cassatt

Wikidata ID

Q64607682

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