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Mary Cassatt

The Visitor, c. 1880

Not on View

Medium

softground etching, aquatint, and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 39.7 x 31.1 cm (15 5/8 x 12 1/4 in.)

sheet: 52.1 x 39.7 cm (20 1/2 x 15 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Breeskin 1979, no. 34, v/vi

Accession Number

1946.21.94

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

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Inscription

recto: at lower left in graphite in later hand: E 12720 E 98 - [indecipherable] R.H.; verso: at lower right in graphite in later hand: 78

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657) and Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Provenance

Edgar Degas, Paris (Lugt 657); Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 76); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; acquired 1946 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Degas, Edgar
Hartshorne, Robert
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1946: New Acquisitions in the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946

1963: Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 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: The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt, organized by the Museum of Graphic Art, New York, and circulated to 8 venues (Cooper Union Museum, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Cincinnati Art Museum; University of California, Los Angeles; 1967-1968, no. 7, repro.

1977: Prints of Paris: The 1980s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1977.

1982: Mary Cassatt: Graphic Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI; and Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1982.

1998: Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; 1998-1999, no. 44, as Interior Scene (shown only in Chicago and Boston).

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 40.

Bibliography

1967: Breeskin, Adelyn, and Donald H. Karshan. The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt. New York, Museum of Graphic Art, 1967, p. 23, no. 7.

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 34, v/vi.

1998: Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman. Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999: 66-67, 119, 124, 136, no. 44, repro.

2008: McLean, Janet., et al. Impressionist Interiors. Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 2008, p. 23, fig. 8.