Mary Cassatt
The Banjo Lesson
1887-1897
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Mary Cassatt
The Banjo Lesson
1887-1897
Physical Qualities
Drypoint and color aquatint with monoprint inking, Sheet: 404 × 324 mm. (15 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
Image: 299 × 299 mm. (11 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Winifred M. Gordon, Baltimore, in Memory of her Husband, Douglas Huntly Gordon
Object Number
1994.147
Purchased by Douglas Gordon.
Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge
Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad
Mary Cassatt - A Comprehensive Exhibition
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Graphic Work. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Page 65, catalogue 156. Nancy Mowll Mathews and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with Williams College Museum of Art, 1989. Page 164, catalogue 16. 'In the Spotlight: Recent Accession,' BMA Today, December 1995/January 1996, pp. 20-21, ill. p. 21.
Inscribed: FACE: (graphite), below image, R, 'Mary Cassatt'; LL, 'E 952_ rss.'; C, 'Le Banjo'; some erasures LL, 'K9-35/7711 {Cone 3014(?)}'. VERSO: clean.
Markings: Van der Ley
