Mary Cassatt
In the Garden
1892
Physical Qualities
Pastel on light brown paper, Sheet: 730 x 600 mm. (28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.193
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore, March 9, 1942; Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1893.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 'Exposition Mary Cassatt', November-December 1893, p. 16, no. 19.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 'Exposition of Paintings, Pastels and Etchings by Miss Mary Cassatt', April 16-30, 1895, unpaginated [page 1], no. 13.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 'Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt', Nov. 5-21, 1903, no. 16.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 'Etchings and Drawings', Feb. 1920, no. 17.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 'Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt (1847-1926)', Oct. 23-Nov. 12, 1926, no. 3.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 'Catalogue of a Memorial Collection of the Works of Mary Cassatt', Dec. 21-Jan. 24, 1927, unpaginated, no. 9.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 'The Cassatt Exhibition', April 30-May 30, 1927, no. 10, checklist published in Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 22:113 (May 1927), p. 374.
Tryon Art Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., 'Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mary Cassatt, 1845-1926', Jan. 4-25, 1928, unpaginated, no. 2.
City Art Museum of St. Louis, 'Exhibition of Oils and Pastels by Mary Cassatt', Dec. 10, 1933-Jan. 28, 1934, unpaginated, no. 10.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Mary Cassatt', Jan. 7-Feb. 10, 1936, p. 9, no. 1. Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 'Pastels and Gouaches by XIXth Century French Artists', April 1935.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Mary Cassatt', Nov. 28, 1941-Jan. 11, 1942, no. 23, ill. [unpaginated].
Wildenstein, New York, 'Mary Cassatt', Oct. 29-Dec. 6, 1947, p. 36, no. 22, ill. p. 31.
Wildenstein Gallery, New York City, NY, Oct. 1947 - Jan. 1948.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 1949, p. 11.
Frederick Sweet, Art Institute of Chicago, 'Works of Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt', Jan. 14-Feb. 25, 1954, p. 29, no. 20; circulated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 25-May 23, 1954.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot & Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 60, no. 114.
M. Knoedler & Company, New York, 'Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Work by Mary Cassatt', Feb. 1966, no. 24.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 'Mary Cassatt', Sept. 26-Nov. 8, 1970, p. 28, no. 52.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 14 May - 23 July, 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawins and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Jay Fisher et al, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 19-Sept. 11, 2005.
BMA, Cone Wing rotation, 5 February - 24 June 2007.
BMA, American Wing rotation, 14 November 2014 - 26 May 2015.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 'Exposition of Paintings, Pastels and Etchings by Miss Mary Cassatt', April 16-30, 1895, unpaginated [page 1], no. 13.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 'Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt', Nov. 5-21, 1903, no. 16.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 'Etchings and Drawings', Feb. 1920, no. 17.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 'Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt (1847-1926)', Oct. 23-Nov. 12, 1926, no. 3.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 'Catalogue of a Memorial Collection of the Works of Mary Cassatt', Dec. 21-Jan. 24, 1927, unpaginated, no. 9.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 'The Cassatt Exhibition', April 30-May 30, 1927, no. 10, checklist published in Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 22:113 (May 1927), p. 374.
Tryon Art Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., 'Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mary Cassatt, 1845-1926', Jan. 4-25, 1928, unpaginated, no. 2.
City Art Museum of St. Louis, 'Exhibition of Oils and Pastels by Mary Cassatt', Dec. 10, 1933-Jan. 28, 1934, unpaginated, no. 10.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Mary Cassatt', Jan. 7-Feb. 10, 1936, p. 9, no. 1. Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 'Pastels and Gouaches by XIXth Century French Artists', April 1935.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Mary Cassatt', Nov. 28, 1941-Jan. 11, 1942, no. 23, ill. [unpaginated].
Wildenstein, New York, 'Mary Cassatt', Oct. 29-Dec. 6, 1947, p. 36, no. 22, ill. p. 31.
Wildenstein Gallery, New York City, NY, Oct. 1947 - Jan. 1948.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 1949, p. 11.
Frederick Sweet, Art Institute of Chicago, 'Works of Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt', Jan. 14-Feb. 25, 1954, p. 29, no. 20; circulated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 25-May 23, 1954.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot & Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 60, no. 114.
M. Knoedler & Company, New York, 'Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Work by Mary Cassatt', Feb. 1966, no. 24.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 'Mary Cassatt', Sept. 26-Nov. 8, 1970, p. 28, no. 52.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 14 May - 23 July, 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawins and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Jay Fisher et al, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 19-Sept. 11, 2005.
BMA, Cone Wing rotation, 5 February - 24 June 2007.
BMA, American Wing rotation, 14 November 2014 - 26 May 2015.
"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 100.
Toshio Kojima, Pasuteruga: Meiga to Jissen, Tokyo: Rikuyosha, 1999, ill. p. 80. Griselda Pollack, Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women, London: Thames nd Hudson, 1998, p. 45.
Harriet K. Stratis, 'Innovation and Tradition in Mary Cassatt's Pastels: A Study of Her Methods and Materials', in Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, organized by Judith A. Barter, Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, p. 217, fig. 1 ill. p. 212.
Cover illustration for Psychiatric Services: A Journal of the American Psychiatric Association, 49:8 (August 1998).
Nancy Mowll Mathews, editor, Cassatt: A Retrospective, [New York?] Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1996, p. 227 and 230, colorplate 68, p. 217.
Maria Costantino, Mary Cassatt, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1995, ill. p. 74.
Alison Effeny, Cassatt, London: Studio Editions, 1991, p. 114-115.
Sophia Craze, Mary Cassatt, Greenwich, CT: Crescent Books, 1990, p. 66.
Charles Sullivan, America in Poetry, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988, ill. p. 167.
Nancy Mowll Mathews, "Mary Cassatt", New York: Harry N, Abrams, Inc., 1987, p. 50
Brenda Richardson, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1985, p. 193.
William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism, New York: Abbeville Press, 1984, p. 43, plate no. 30, ill. p. 45.
Richard Love, Cassatt: the Independent, Chicago: Milton H. Kreines, 1980, p. 101-02, ill. no. 33.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1970, p. 110, no. 221.
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1967, p. 65, no. 8. (1955 edition, p. 27, no 8).
Frederick A. Sweet, Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966, p. 139, ill. plate 18.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, A Picture Book, 1955, ill. p. 47. BMA News, (Oct. 1949), p. 11, no. 4.
Margaret Breuning, Mary Cassatt, New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 28.
'Cassatt: The Distaff Impressionist in Full View', Art News 40 (Jan. 1, 1942), p. 18. Illustrated in Art News, 33 (April 27, 1935), p. 8.
Literary Digest, 90 (July 10, 1926), 28. Scribner's Magazine 19 (March 1896), p. 359.
Inscribed: RECTO: LR, (pastel), 'Mary Cassatt'
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