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Portrait Head of a Friend

Mary Cassatt

Portrait Head of a Friend

1879

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Mary Cassatt

Portrait Head of a Friend

1879

Physical Qualities Graphite, Sheet: 224 x 142 mm. (22.4 x 14.2 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.12.669
3/4 view of a woman; hair up; ear ring. VERSO: indecipherible sketch.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore, 1931; Galerie A-M Reitlinger, Paris, Mathilde X Sale, 1931, no. 134; Mathilde Valet, Paris, 1927.
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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. 252, no. 729, ill. p. 252.
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1967, p. 71, no. 172 [not reproduced].
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 252, no. 729, ill. p. 252.

Inscribed: RECTO: BLC, stamp, 'Collection / Mary Cassatt / Mathilde X' (Lugt Suppl. 2665a).

Artist

Mary Cassatt

1843–1925

American, 1844-1926
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