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Mary Cassatt

In the Opera Box (No. 3), c. 1880

Not on View

Medium

softground etching and aquatint on Japanese paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.64 × 18.73 cm (8 1/8 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 35.88 x 26.99 cm (14 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Breeskin 1979, no. 22, iv/iv

Accession Number

1946.21.80

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

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Inscription

recto: below image at left in graphite: Mary Cassatt; lower edge in graphite by unknown hand: E 1100- N.Y.C. 329 - R.H.; verso: at left in graphite by unknown hand: A91004

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b) and National Gallery of Art

Provenance

Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 27); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1948: American Graphic Art from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948.

1950: Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

1956: Art and the Theater, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC, 1956.

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.

1967: Miss Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Graphic Arts, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1967.

1970: Graphics by Contemporary Painters, Allentown Art Museum, PA, 1970.

1977: Prints of Paris: The 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1977.

1983: Night Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1983, no. 48.

2011: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

2014: Degas/Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 22, iv/iv.

2010: Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.

2014: Jones, Kimberly A. Degas/Cassat. Exh. Cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2014: no. 21.