id: 142355 accession number: 1966.176.b share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.176.b updated: 2023-03-10 19:43:02.881000 The Visitor (verso), c. 1881. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Soft ground lines transferred from etching plate; 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.b title: The Visitor (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1881 creation date earliest: 1876 creation date latest: 1886 current location: creditline: Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: soft ground lines transferred from etching plate department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Breeskin 34 --- CREATORS * Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.) state of the work: II/V edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Private Collection of Edgar Degas opening date: 1997-09-22T00:00:00 The Private Collection of Edgar Degas . The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (September 22, 1997-January 11, 1998). title: Mary Cassatt: A Modern Woman opening date: 1998-10-10T00:00:00 Mary Cassatt: A Modern Woman. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (October 10, 1998-January 10, 1999); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (February 6-May 19, 1999). title: Degas/Cassatt opening date: 2014-05-11T00:00:00 Degas/Cassatt. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (May 11-October 5, 2014). title: Mary Cassatt at Work opening date: 2024-04-11T04:00:00 Mary Cassatt at Work. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (April 11-August 4, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Edgar Degas, Paris date: footnotes: citations: Edgar Degas, Paris, Lugt 657 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: Mary Cassatt produced this sheet as a working drawing for an etching of the same title. She framed the subject's slanted silhouette against the verticals and horizontals of the window, and featured a seated figure in profile in the lower left quadrant of the composition. The bold, dramatic contrasts of sunlight and shadow throughout the room contrast with the delicacy and sensitivity with which the visitor's face were drawn by Cassatt from direct observation. wall description: Like Knitting in the Library and After-Dinner Coffee, this is a working drawing for an etching. The slanted silhouette of the young woman framed against the verticals and horizontals of the window, a seated figure in profile in the lower left quadrant of the composition, and dramatic contrasts of sunlight and shadow have precedents in Degas's Mary Cassatt at the Louvre, the Etruscan Gallery. However, the care, delicacy, and sensitivity with which the visitor's face was drawn are entirely characteristic of Cassatt's close observation of her models. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. 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. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. 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. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 234 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n254 Cassatt, Mary, Shalini Le Gall, Justin McCann, Justine de Young, and Daniel Harkett. Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. 2021, 24. page number: Mentioned and reproduced, p. 24, fig. 7 url: --- IMAGES