Mary Cassatt
Knitting in the Library
c. 1881
Physical Qualities
Softground etching and aquatint on blue laid paper, Sheet: 405 x 258 mm. (15 15/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Plate: 279 x 217 mm. (11 x 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Blanche Adler, Frederic W. Cone, Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, Philip B. Perlman, Frank C. Smith, and Henry Treide
Object Number
1937.57
Shelburne Museum, "Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family," June 14 - October 26, 2008; circulating to the Nation Museum of Women in the Arts, November 2 - January 12, 2009.
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Whistler & Cassatt: Americans Abroad," June 11-Oct. 13, 2003.
Jay McKean Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Three Master Printmakers from the Nineteenth Century: Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt,” March 17-May 30, 1993
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, "French and American Impressionism," 2 October - 26 November 1967.
[note: this work was prepared for the 2021 BMA rotation 2 for "Adelyn Breeskin: Curating a Legacy" but cut from the installation]
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Whistler & Cassatt: Americans Abroad," June 11-Oct. 13, 2003.
Jay McKean Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Three Master Printmakers from the Nineteenth Century: Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt,” March 17-May 30, 1993
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, "French and American Impressionism," 2 October - 26 November 1967.
[note: this work was prepared for the 2021 BMA rotation 2 for "Adelyn Breeskin: Curating a Legacy" but cut from the installation]
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Mary Cassatt"
Markings: WM: large grapes in a cornucopia
