About This Artwork

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)
printed with Leroy (French, active 1876-1900)

Woman Bathing, 1890-91

Color aquatint, with drypoint from three plates, on off-white laid paper
364 x 269 mm (image/plate); 432 x 305 mm (sheet)
Inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Imprimée par l'artiste et M. Leroy / Mary Cassatt / (25 épreuves)"

Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1932.1281

Mathews & Shapiro 10 IV/IV; Breeskin 148 V/V

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Mary Cassatt," January 7-February 10, 1936, p. 15, cat. 37.

Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, "Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania," May 17-July 1, 1979.

Williamstown, Mass., Williams College Museum of Art, "Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints," November 25, 1989-January 21, 1990, p. 134, cat. 10-IV, as "Woman Bathing."

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," October 10, 1998-January 10, 1999, pp. 283 and 323, cat. 61 (ill.).

Publication History

Adelyn D. Breeskin, The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt (New York, 1948), p. 73, no. 148.

Nancy Mowll Matthews and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, exh. cat. (New York, 1989), p. 134, cat. 10-IV, as "Woman Bathing."

James N. Wood and Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 176 (ill.).

Mari Yoshihara, Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism (Oxford, 2003).

Ownership History

The artist to Durand-Ruel [Chicago 1998]. Albert Roullier, Chicago [Chicago 1998]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1932.




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