Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel on tan wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 61 x 45.5 cm (24 x 17 15/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1985.64.81
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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