id:			142353
accession number:	1966.176
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.176
updated:		2025-10-10 11:26:25.779000

The Visitor (recto); The Visitor (verso), c. 1881. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Black and tan pencil; sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary, 1966.176

title:				The Visitor (recto); The Visitor (verso)
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creation date:			c. 1881
creation date earliest:		1876
creation date latest:		1886
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creditline:			Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary
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culture:	America
technique:	black and tan pencil
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 19th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review
	opening date:   1970-01-14T05:00:00
	<i>The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-March 31, 1970).

	title:		The Impressionist Aesthetic
	opening date:   1982-08-10T04:00:00
	<i>The Impressionist Aesthetic</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-October 31, 1982).

	title:		Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland
	opening date:   1991-04-02T05:00:00
	<i>Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).

	title:		Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot
	opening date:   1993-11-07T05:00:00
	<i>Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994).

	title:		Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris
	opening date:   2012-10-04T00:00:00
	<i>Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).

	title:		Mary Cassatt at Work
	opening date:   2024-05-18T04:00:00
	<i>Mary Cassatt at Work</i>. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (May 18-September 8, 2024) https://www.philamuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/mary-cassatt-at-work.

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Edgar Degas, Paris
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	acquired from artist by Edgar Degas, Paris, c. 1880-1917; [his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15-16 November, 1918, no. 82]; René de Gas, Paris [all this according to Chicago et. al. 1998]
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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 189
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n213

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 189
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n213

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 234
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n254

	Richards, Louise S. “Mary Cassatt’s Drawing of the Visitor.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 8 (October 1978): 268–276.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 268-272, figs. 1-2
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159598

	Cassatt, Mary, Shalini Le Gall, Justin McCann, Justine de Young, and Daniel Harkett. <em>Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt</em>. 2021, 24.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced, p. 24, fig. 7
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	Thompson, Jennifer A., and Laurel Garber. <em>Mary Cassatt at Work.</em> Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2024.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 184, fig. 102a & b
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