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A pale-skinned woman bends over a basin of water on a washstand in this vertical, colored print. The woman is angled away from us so only her ear and the curve of her forehead are visible beyond her hunched shoulder. Her upper body is bare, her dress having been unfastened so it hangs around her waist. The dress is striped with frosty green, shell pink, and the cream white of the paper. Light gleams on her dark brown hair, which is tied up and back. She cups her hands in the light blue water of the white basin. Two bottles sit at the back corner of the washstand, and a mirror reflects the top of her head. The fawn-brown washstand is boxy, and a handled white pitcher painted with muted pink flowers is at the front left corner, which is closest to us. The wall beyond the washstand is pale, arctic blue, as is the carpet, which is also patterned with pea -green leaves. The artist signed the work in graphite under the lower right corner, “Mary Cassatt.”

Mary Cassatt

Woman Bathing, 1890-1891

Not on View

Medium

color drypoint and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 36.83 × 26.35 cm (14 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)

sheet: 42.3 x 30.5 cm (16 5/8 x 12 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 10, iii/iv

Accession Number

1950.1.41

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Mary Cassatt

Provenance

McVitty

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1951: Mary Cassatt and her Parisian friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 41.

1962: A Generation of Draughtsmen, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1962.

1963: American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 43.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Arts, Richmond; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1965, no. 112.

1971: An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 11.

1989: Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1989-1990., no. 10-III, repro.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 148, iv/v.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 10, iii/iv.

1996: Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996, p. 172.