Reflection
Reflection

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Reflection,

1890

Mary Cassatt, 1844–1926; born Allegheny City, PA; died Le Mesnil-Theribus, France
x1971-8
This print is one of a series of twelve drypoints published by Cassatt’s dealer Durand-Ruel in 1890. The great Japanese exhibition organized by Sigfried Bing at the École des Beaux-Arts that year had included more than seven hundred ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The prints by Utamaro—in particular the suite of twelve images of women known as The Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarter of the Yoshiwara—made a profound impression on Cassatt when she visited the exhibition, inspiring her to create her own set of drypoints of fashionable young women seen at intimate moments in their daily lives.

Information

Title
Reflection
Dates

1890

Maker
Mary Cassatt
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 26.2 × 17.4 cm (10 5/16 × 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 38.3 x 27.9 cm. (15 1/16 x 11 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Scribner Jr., Class of 1943
Object Number
x1971-8
Place Made

Europe, France

Inscription
Signed in graphite, lower right: Mary Cassatt
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist stamp, lower right Watermark: [a bell]
Reference Numbers
Lugt 604; Breeskin 131 iv
Culture
American
Type
drypoints, prints
Techniques
mounting, drypoint
Subject
sitting, figures (representations), dresses, hats, women

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