About This Artwork
Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
The Artist's Father Readingc. 1883
Graphite, on ivory wove paper
224 x 142 mm
Solomon A. Smith Charitable Fund, 1965.8
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, Galerie A. M. Reitlinger, "Dessins, Pastels, Peintures, Études par Mary Cassatt," May 19-June 30, 1931, cat. 164.
Chicago, International Galleries, 1966.
Publication History
F. Sweet, Miss Mary Cassatt, Impressionist from Pennsylvania (Norman, Okla., 1966) (ill.).
Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt, A Catalogue Raisonné (Washington, D.C., 1970), p. 259 (ill.).
Ownership History
Estate of the artist, 1926-1927 [Lugt 2665a]; Mathilde Vallet, Paris, 1927-1931 [according to Breeskin 1970]. Sold, Galerie A. M. Reitlinger, Paris, June 1931, Mathilde X sale, lot 164. Sold by Henri Petiet (died 1980), Paris, to the Art Institute, 1965.