Mary Cassatt

American, 1844–1926

Two Children on the Grass, 1886

two children on the grass by mary cassatt

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Medium: Soft-ground etching on paper
Size: 9.88 x 6.88 in. (25.1 x 17.5 cm.)
Markings: Initialed at lower left: M.C.

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Adelson Galleries

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About this Artwork

Size Notes: Plate 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches (25 x 17.7 cm)
Sheet 13 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (35 x 21 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)

Private European Collection (acquired at the anonymous sale of works from the Cassatt studio collection, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Feb. 14, 1980, lot 747)
Exhibitions: Adelson Galleries, New York, Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard, April 24 – June 6, 2008, no. 32, illus. in color, p. 60
Literature: Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1948), no. 90

Description

Soft-ground, initialed M.C., printed in brown ink with plate tone, a probably unique impression of an intermediate state between Breeskin's first and second state of two, with the outline of the girl's right hand and her upper arm completed, with added volume to her hair at right, and with the baby's smock and legs indicated in soft-ground, but before the addition of aquatint, on laid paper with VANDERLEY watermark

Only one impression is recorded of each of the other two states.