About This Artwork
Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
Portrait of a Young Girlc. 1880
Pastel on paper
24 1/2 in x 20 1/8 in (sight)
Signed recto, lower left
Gift of Kate L. Brewster, 1950.119
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mary Cassatt Memorial Exhibition," December 21, 1926-January 24, 1927, cat. 6.
Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, "A Memorial Exhibition of Mary Cassatt," March 15-April 15, 1928, cat. 27.
Lake Forest, Ill., Lake Forest College, "100th Anniversary of Lake Forest College," June 9-June 17, 1957
Publication History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 69.
Frederick Sweet, Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and in Chicago Collections," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967), p. 37 (ill.).
Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings (Washington DC, 1970), no. 106 (ill.).
Ownership History
Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, January 11, 1923 [Breeskin 1970]. Sold by Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, February 2, 1925 [invoice] bequeathed by his wife, Kate Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947) to the Art Institute, 1950.