Before the Fireplace (No. 1), c. 1882

Inscription

lower left in graphite: Ep d'Etat; lower right in graphite: Coll Edg Degas; lower left margin in graphite by unknown hand: Cassatt Before the fireplace; lower right margin in graphite by unknown hand: Degas collection

Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, no. 26); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

1950

Prints by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

1951

Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 23.

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.

2009

The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; 2009-2010.

Bibliography

1979

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 64, iii/iii.

1996

Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996, p. 126.

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