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Degas, Edgar. Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery, 1879–80. softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching, Platemark: 26.7 x 23.2 cm (10 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.). The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1929.877. CC0.
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.