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Original drypoint printed in dark umber ink on laid paper bearing the “VANDERLEY” watermark
Hand-signed in pencil in the margin below the image lower right Mary Cassatt.
A superb impression of Breeskin’s fifth and final state of this extremely rare etching, printed after the shading was added to the table top and the wide moulding was added to its edge, showing touches of burr and a delicate, warm plate tone throughout, from the edition of only 25 (of which 12 were already represented in museum collections internationally in 1979). One of the twelve drypoint subjects, each published in an edition of 25, exhibited in March, 1890, in the Exposition des Peintres-Graveurs at the Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, and again in November-December, 1893, in the large, comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s paintings, pastels, drawings, and prints, also at the Galerie Durand-Ruel.
Catalog: Breeskin 133 v/v
7 1/8 x 6 1/16 inches
Sheet Size: 13 x 8 ¼ inches
In excellent condition, printed on a sheet with wide margins.
Literature regarding this artwork: Nancy Mathews & Barbara Shapiro, Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, Harry N. Abrams, New York, fig. 24.g, p. 41 (ill.);
John Ittmann, Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890’s, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1998, p. 6 (ill.);
M. Rosen & S. Pinsky, Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Artist’s Studio, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2000, p. 63 (ill.);
M. Rosen & S. Pinsky, Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard, New York, 2008, nos. 57-60, pp. 80-81 (ill.).
Collections in which impressions of this state of this drypoint can be found: Avery Collection, New York Public Library, New York; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Michigan; Lucas Collection, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore; Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Art Museum of Princeton University, New Jersey; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri.mary cass
