Mary Cassatt

American, 1844–1926

The Parrot, 1891

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Medium: Aquatint and drypoint on a paper
Size: 12.25 x 9.38 in. (31.1 x 23.8 cm.)
Markings: Annotated: D HP-

Catalogue #22

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Adelson Galleries

New York / Palm Beach

About this Artwork

Size Notes: Plate: 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (16 x 11.9 cm)

Sheet: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (31.2 x 24 cm)
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)

the heirs of Henri M. Petiet
Exhibitions: Adelson Galleries, New York, Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard, April 24 – June 6, 2008, no. 67, illus. in color p. 86

Mona Bismarck American Center for Art & Culture, Paris, France, Mary Cassatt in Paris: Prints & Drawings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection, September 26, 2012 - January 20, 2013

Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark, Mary Cassatt: Fransk-Amerikansk Impressionist pa Papir, February 8 - June 9, 2013, cat. 22, illus. in color, p. 62
Literature: Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1948), no. 138

"Mary Cassatt in Paris: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard Collection," Connaissance des Arts (Special Issue) No. 551/1 (2012), illus. in color, p. 19

Description

Drypoint, a proof of an unrecorded early state, before the completion of the lines on the skirt, printed in dark brown ink with burr and plate tone, with the artist's blue initial stamp (Lugt 604), on laid paper with BLACONS watermark and with countermark fragment 31, annotated D HP- in lower margin

This subject is one of the set of twelve drypoints that was 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.)