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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.24.8
People
Mary Cassatt, American (Allegheny City, PA 1844 - 1926 Le Mesnil-Theribus, France)
Title
The Bath
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1890-1891
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/6107

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Drypoint, softground etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 32.1 x 25 cm (12 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
sheet: 36.6 x 26.6 cm (14 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, graphite pencil, in artist's hand: W.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist; to Ambrose Vollard, Paris, 1926, bequest; to his heirs, 1939, sold; to Henri M. Petiet, Paris (Lugt 2021a), 1940, bequest; to his estate, 1980, sold; to Marc Rosen, New York, sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2006

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
xiv/xvii
Standard Reference Number
Breeskin 143; Mathews/Shapiro 5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, Class of 1907, by exchange
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.24.8
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marc Rosen, Susan Pinsky, Jay Cantor, Warren Adelson, and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Artist's Studio, exh. cat., Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2000), p. 78, repr.
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 178-9, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Artist's Studio, Adelson Galleries, Inc., 11/10/2000 - 12/29/2000
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #1: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/04/2009 - 10/04/2009
  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/03/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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Verification Level

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