Head of Robert, Aged Seven
Mary Cassatt, American, 1844 - 1926
1880
Drypoint and soft-ground etching on laid paper
Plate: 3 1/8 × 4 3/4 in. (7.9 × 12.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 × 9 1/4 in. (17.8 × 23.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.113
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Mary Cassatt; inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: Tête d'enfant
Exhibition History
Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, June 14-October 26, 2008; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, November 21, 2008-January 25, 2009.
Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Philadelphia, Sunrise Foundation, Charleston, West Virginia, June 4-September 4, 1983, no. 28.
Provenance
Collected by 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, no. 40.
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