Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
1879–80
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Prints
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery, 1879–80. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching; platemark: 26.7 x 23.2 cm (10 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1929.877 This print is one of two in which Edgar Degas depicted Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia at the Musée du Louvre. In this iteration of the subject, Casatt gazes intently at an Etruscan tomb, about 500 BC, excavated at Cerveteri, the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. Cassatt is viewed from behind while the enigmatically smiling couple, lying on top of a sarcophagus and enclosed in a glass case, face the viewer. Cassatt confronts the sculpture directly while Lydia reads about it in a guidebook.
- Maker/Artist
- Degas, Edgar
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching
- Medium
- softground, etching, drypoint, aquatint
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 26.7 x 23.2 cm (10 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1929.877
- Credit Line
- The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Exhibitions
- Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection, Etchings of Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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