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The Fitting
1890–91
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Prints
The Fitting, 1890–91. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Color drypoint and aquatint; platemark: 37.6 x 25.5 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.); sheet: 42.7 x 31.4 cm (16 13/16 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Charles T. Brooks 1941.72 This print belongs to a set of ten color etchings that Mary Cassatt displayed at her first exhibition, held at Paris's Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1891. To create the image of a woman being fitted for a gown by a seamstress, the artist worked with multiple printing plates and "painted" ink onto the surface of each by hand. As a result, although the prints exist in multiples, each is virtually unique. The artist Camille Pissarro described the series of prints to which this work belongs as "admirable, as beautiful as Japanese work," praising Cassatt's translation of ukiyo-e woodblocks.
- Maker/Artist
- Cassatt, Mary
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- color drypoint and aquatint
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 37.6 x 25.5 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 42.7 x 31.4 cm (16 13/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, in pencil, at lower right: Mary Cassatt
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1941.72
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Charles T. Brooks
- Exhibitions
- The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, What Was the Armory Show?, Japonisme: Japanese Influence on French Art, 1854 - 1910, The Impressionist Aesthetic, Printing in Color, Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints, Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Innovative Impressions: Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro as Painter-Printmakers, Mary Cassatt at Work
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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