Title: Femme
Tenant Son Enfant Sur Les Genoux (Mother Jeanne Holding
Her Baby) (c. 1908) Medium: Unique Original Drawing in a warm graphite Pencil
Image Size: 11.74" x 8.5" (30 x 21.5 cm)
Sheet Size: 12.63" x 9.38" (32 x 23.9 cm)
Framed Size: 33.25" x 29.5"
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist by Mathilde Valet in 1927
(housekeeper and personal companion to Mary Cassatt)
Mathilde X sale, Paris 1931
Durand-Ruel, Paris 1966
Mrs. Carroll Petrie Collection
Exhibited:
Galerie AM Reitlinger, 'Dessins, Pastels, Peintures, Etudes
par Mary Cassatt, 1931 (cat. 146)
Documentation: It is fully documented and referenced in
(copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the
invoices that I will enclose with the sale of the work):
1. Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne
of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. 1970, listed
as cat. no.922 on page 301.
2. "Mathilde X" collector's stamp documented as
Lugt 2665a.
3. Dessins, Pastels, Peintures, Etudes par Mary Cassatt,
1931 (cat. 146)
Price: $55,000
Born in Allegheny
City (Pennsylvania) - Died in Le Mesnil-Theribus (Oise) The
daughter of a banker, she moved with her family to Paris in
1851. From 1853 to 1855 she lived at Heidelberg and Darmstadt.
From 1861-1865 she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in the studio of Charles Chaplin
in Paris. In 1868 she exhibited for the first time at the
Salon. While studying at the Academy Raimondi in Parma in
1871, she copied Correggio and Parmigianino and became an
admirer of Velazquez and Rembrandt. In 1873 she travelled
to Madrid, Seville, Belgium and the Netherlands, and made
copies especially of Velazquez and Rubens, before finally
settling in Paris. There she met Degas in 1877, who suggested
her joining the Impressionists. Her work was greatly influenced
by Degas and Renoir, taking as principal subject portraits
of women and children. Cassatt took part in the IV to VI and
again in the VIII Impressionist exhibition. Her own work was
shown by Durand-Ruel in 1891. In 1898 she visited the United
States, went to Italy and Spain in 1901, and for the last
time to the United States in 1908. In 1910 she became a member
of the National Academy of Design in New York. In 1914 she
was awarded the gold medal of the Pennsylvanian Academy of
Art. Cassatt gradually lost her sight and was compelled to
give up painting. It was due to her efforts that French Impressionism
became known and understood in America, and also thanks to
her initiative that the Havemeyer collection, now at the New
York Metropolitan Museum, came into being.
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