Mimi as a Brunette, c. 1889

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 26.99 × 21.43 cm (10 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)

sheet: 31 × 23.5 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Breeskin 1979, no. 116

Accession Number

1946.21.84

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in composition, at lower right in graphite: Mary Cassatt; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: no 7664; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: Jeune fille à table R. H.; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: Hartshorne 24; at lower center in graphite in later hand: A78292; at lower right in graphite in later hand: WO xv [?] 301

Marks and Labels

recto: Roger Marx (Lugt 2229); verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b) and National Gallery of Art

Provenance

Roger Marx [1859-1913], Paris (Lugt 2229); Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 46); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Hartshorne, Robert
Marx, Roger
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

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

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

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

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 116.