Mary Cassatt
Augusta’s Daughter and a Friend Seated near a Riverbank
1899
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Mary Cassatt
Augusta’s Daughter and a Friend Seated near a Riverbank
1899
Physical Qualities
Watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 489 x 339 mm. (19 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.194
Frontal view of little girl with brown hair and a smaller, blonde girl in profile, rendered more loosely than the first, sitting in front of a river. Cream, thick, rough wove paper
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore; Galerie A-M Reitlinger, Paris, Mathilde X Sale, 1931, no. 53; Mathilde Valet, Paris, 1927; Collection of the artist.
Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad
Baltimore Museum of Art, 'BMA Today': May / June 2003, p.4, ill.
Nancy Mowll Mathews, editor, Cassatt: A Retrospective', [New York?]: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1996, ill. p. 347.
Brenda Richardson, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: The Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1985, p. 186.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 236, no. 676, ill. p. 236.
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1967, p. 65, no. 9 [not reproduced] (1955 edition, p. 27, no. 9).
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 236, no. 676, ill. p. 236.
Inscribed: RECTO: LR, stamp, 'Collection / Mary Cassatt / Mathilde X' (Lugt Suppl. 2665a); VERSO: BRC, graphite, number in circle that has been obscured by a label, '53 - Deux fillettes au bord d'une rivière', pasted over it.