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The Visitor (recto)
c. 1881
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Drawings
The Visitor (recto), c. 1881. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Black and tan pencil; sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary 1966.176.a Mary Cassatt produced this sheet as a working drawing for an etching of the same title. She framed the subject's slanted silhouette against the verticals and horizontals of the window, and featured a seated figure in profile in the lower left quadrant of the composition. The bold, dramatic contrasts of sunlight and shadow throughout the room contrast with the delicacy and sensitivity with which the visitor's face were drawn by Cassatt from direct observation.
- Maker/Artist
- Cassatt, Mary
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- black and tan pencil
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1966.176.a
- Credit Line
- Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary
- Exhibitions
- Fraternite: Artistic Relations Between France and America, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas , Mary Cassatt: A Modern Woman, Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Degas/Cassatt, Mary Cassatt at Work, CMA, September 10-October 16, 1966: Golden Anniversary Acquisitions, Bulletin LIII (September 1966), p. 281, listed no. 80, repr. p. 238., Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, June 18-August 27, 1989: Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints (also: Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, September 8-November 5, 1989; Williamstown MA, Williams College Museum of Art, November 25, 1989-January 21, 1990).
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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