Mary Cassatt

American, 1844–1926

Tea, 1890

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Medium: Prints and multiples, Drypoint on paper
Size: 7 x 6 in. (17.8 x 15.2 cm.)
Markings: Annotated at lower left: G

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Somerville Manning Gallery

Greenville

About this Artwork

Movement: Modern Art
Provenance: Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist as part of her “studio collection") Henri M. Petiet, Paris (acquired from the Vollard estate)
Private European Collection (acquired at the anonymous sale of works from the Cassatt studio collection, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Feb. 14, 1980)
Exhibitions: Adelson Galleries, New York, Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard, April 25 - June 6, 2008, cat. no. 60, illus. in color p. 81
Literature: Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1948), no. 133

Description

Drypoint, fifth (final) state, printed in dark brown ink with burr and plate tone, on Vanderley laid paper with ProPatria watermark, the full sheet, annotated G in lower-left margin
Plate: 7 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (18.2 x 15.6 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches (35.3 x 21.1 cm)
This subject is one of the set of twelve drypoints included in the retrospective exhibition of Cassatt's paintings, pastels, and more than sixty prints held at Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, in 1893. (The final state was published in an edition of up to 25 impressions.)