A Portrait of the Artist's Mother, c. 1889-1890

Not on View

Medium

softground etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.24 × 17.94 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

sheet: 35.4 x 21.4 cm (13 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 4, iii/iv

Accession Number

1949.5.467

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: at lower right in graphite: Mary Cassatt; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: A 91021; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: FEO; at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: 2928 / ern [?] / v.ax [?]

Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, no. 39); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Whittemore, Harris

Exhibition History

1950: Prints by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950, no cat.

1963: American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA, 1963, no. 39.

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

1989: Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamston, MA, 1989-1990, no. 4-III, repro.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 122, v/vii.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 4, iii/iv.