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Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926
Augusta's Daughter and a Friend Seated Near a River Bank
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| Medium: |
Watercolor over graphite on cream, thick, rough wove paper |
| Dimensions: |
Sheet: 489 x 339 mm. |
| Date: |
ca. 1900 |
| Category: |
genre |
| Subject: |
Girls Child |
| Alternate Title: |
Two Girls near a River Bank Deux fillettes au bord d'une rivière |
| Inscriptions and Markings: |
RECTO: LR, stamp, 'Collection / Mary Cassatt / Mathilde X' (Lugt Suppl. 2665a); VERSO: BRC, graphite, number in circle that has been obscured by a label, '53 - Deux fillettes au bord d'une rivière', pasted over it. |
| Exhibition History: |
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Whistler & Cassatt: Americans Abroad,' June 11-Oct. 12, 2003.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection', June 7-Aug. 27, 1995; circulated to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 3, 1996-Jan. 26, 1997; Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 25-April 20, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 8-July 13, 1997.
Sona Johnston and Victor Carlson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'American Watercolors and Drawings: Selections from the Collection', March 1-May 15, 1983.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Peale House, Philadelphia, 'Mary Cassatt', Jan. 6-Feb. 7, 1965, no. 33.
Huntington Galleries, Huntington, West Virginia, 'Berthe Morisot-Mary Cassatt', Oct. 7-28, 1962, no. 1.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot & Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 60, no. 113.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 1949, p. 11.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Mary Cassatt', Nov. 28, 1941-Jan. 11, 1942, no. 65, [unpaginated].
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Mary Cassatt', Jan. 7-Feb. 10, 1936, p. 10, no. 8. |
| Bibliography: |
Baltimore Museum of Art, 'BMA Today': May / June 2003, p.4, ill.
Nancy Mowll Mathews, editor, Cassatt: A Retrospective', [New York?]: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1996, ill. p. 347.
Brenda Richardson, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: The Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1985, p. 186.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 236, no. 676, ill. p. 236.
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1967, p. 65, no. 9 [not reproduced] (1955 edition, p. 27, no. 9). |
| Provenance: |
BMA by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore; Galerie A-M Reitlinger, Paris, Mathilde X Sale, 1931, no. 53; Mathilde Valet, Paris, 1927; Collection of the artist. |
| Collection: |
The Baltimore Museum of Art |
| Credit Line: |
The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland |
| Object Number: |
BMA 1950.194 |
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