id: 121088
accession number: 1941.79
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.79
updated: 2023-08-29 11:33:53.854000
The Coiffure, 1890–91. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Drypoint and aquatint; platemark: 36.8 x 26.7 cm (14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Charles T. Brooks 1941.79
title: The Coiffure
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creation date: 1890–91
creation date earliest: 1890
creation date latest: 1891
current location:
creditline: Bequest of Charles T. Brooks
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: drypoint and aquatint
department: Prints
collection: PR - Drypoint
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Mathews & Shapiro 14, Breeskin 152
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CREATORS
* Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) - artist
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measurements: Platemark: 36.8 x 26.7 cm (14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
state of the work: M & S: V/V, B: IV/IV
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: Japonisme: Japanese Influence on French Art, 1854 - 1910
opening date: 1975-07-09T04:00:00
Japonisme: Japanese Influence on French Art, 1854 - 1910. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 9-August 31, 1975); Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ (October 4-November 16, 1975); Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (December 10, 1975-January 26, 1976).
title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007).
title: Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris
opening date: 2012-10-04T00:00:00
Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Estate of Charles T. Brooks, Cleveland, OH
date: ?-1941
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: June 10, 1941
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The theme of a woman at her toilette was a common one for male artists of the 19th century for whom it presented the opportunity to depict the female nude—historically considered an essential aspect of artistic practice. For a woman artist to address the subject transgressed social norms of the period. Women were not permitted to attend the illustrious École des Beaux-Arts until 1897, and even at the Académie Julian, which opened to women in 1868, they were not permitted to draw from nude models. Cassatt's answer to the rules of decorum was to suggest the setting of a bourgeois house, rather than the settings her male contemporaries preferred—such as the Turkish bath or the brothel. In her description of the female body, Cassatt relied upon the stylized elegance of her Japanese prototypes, thereby abstracting the nudity of her model.
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