About This Artwork
Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
The Corner of the Sofac. 1879
Graphite and strike-through from soft-ground offset, on paper
279 x 212 mm (sight)
Margaret Day Blake Collection, 1967.145R
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Baltimore Museum of Art, "An Exhibition of Pastels, Watercolors, Pencil Drawings, Soft-Ground Etchings by Mary Cassatt," January 7-February 10, 1936, cat. 20.
Chicago, International Galleries, "Mary Cassatt 1844-1926 Retrospective Exhibition," November-December 1965, cat. 3.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 36 (ill.).
Publication History
Adelyn Breeskin, The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt (New York, 1948), no. 14.
Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt, A Catalogue Raisonné (Washington, D.C., 1970), no. 713 (ill.).
Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1996), p. xii (ill.).
Ownership History
Durand-Ruel, New York, by 1936 [Baltimore 1936 exh. cat.]. International Galleries, Chicago, by 1965 [Chicago 1965 exh. cat.]. Sold by International Galleries to the Art Institute, 1967.