Kneeling in an Armchair
Mary Cassatt, American, 1844 - 1926
about 1903-1904
Drypoint on laid paper
approx 50
Plate: 11 7/8 × 9 1/2 in. (30.1 × 24.2 cm)
Sheet: 17 7/16 × 12 3/16 in. (44.3 × 31 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.112
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Mary Cassatt n. 30; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: Purchased at auction. Feb. 7 & 8, 1928; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: NY. 737. Mas. Watermark: A. PORCABEUF
Course History
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Paris in the Nineteenth Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
19th-Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, in conjunction with Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Janaury 12-March 25, 1979.
Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 26, 1981-January, 1982.
Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Philadelphia, Sunrise Foundation, Charleston, West Virginia, June 4-September 4, 1983, no. 29.
The Image Impressed, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-July 31, 1985.
Visions of Modernity: Nineteenth-Century European Art from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 21, 1998.
Provenance
Auction, New York, February 7-8, 1928, no. 737; sold to Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Catalogue Raisonne
A.D. Breeskin (1979): BV 186.
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