{
"data": {
"id": 154218,
"accession_number": "1988.36",
"share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
"tombstone": "Knitting in the Library, c. 1881. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844\u20131926). Softground etching and aquatint; platemark: 27.8 x 21.7 cm (10 15/16 x 8 9/16 in.); sheet: 36.5 x 27.8 cm (14 3/8 x 10 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1988.36",
"current_location": null,
"title": "Knitting in the Library",
"creation_date": "c. 1881",
"creation_date_earliest": 1876,
"creation_date_latest": 1886,
"artists_tags": [
"female"
],
"culture": [
"America"
],
"technique": "softground etching and aquatint",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Prints",
"collection": "PR - Etching",
"type": "Print",
"measurements": "Platemark: 27.8 x 21.7 cm (10 15/16 x 8 9/16 in.); Sheet: 36.5 x 27.8 cm (14 3/8 x 10 15/16 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"platemark": {
"height": 0.278,
"height_inch": 10,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.9375,
"width": 0.217,
"width_inch": 8,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.5625
},
"sheet": {
"height": 0.365,
"height_inch": 14,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.375,
"width": 0.278,
"width_inch": 10,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.9375
}
},
"state_of_the_work": "II/III",
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [
{
"inscription": "signed in pencil at lower right: Mary Cassatt",
"inscription_translation": null,
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"inscription": "inscribed in pencil at lower left: \u00e9pr. d'essai",
"inscription_translation": null,
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
}
],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 310246,
"title": "The Year in Review for 1988",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).",
"opening_date": "1989-03-01T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 311553,
"title": "Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot",
"description": "Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994).",
"opening_date": "1993-11-07T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 218915,
"title": "L'Impressionnisme vu d'Am\u00e9rique",
"description": "L'Impressionnisme vu d'Am\u00e9rique. Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier, France (organizer) (June 9-September 9, 2007); Mus\u00e9e de Grenoble, Grenoble, France (October 6, 2007-January 20, 2008).",
"opening_date": "2007-06-09T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 200460,
"title": "Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris",
"description": "Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).",
"opening_date": "2012-10-04T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 295882,
"title": "Innovative Impressions: Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro as Painter-Printmakers",
"description": "Innovative Impressions: Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro as Painter-Printmakers. Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (organizer) (June 9-September 9, 2018).",
"opening_date": "2018-06-09T04:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": []
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "(David Tunick, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "?-1988",
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "1988-",
"sortorder": 2
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": "Mary Cassatt often made only a few (or even just one) impression of her early softground etchings, making these prints virtually unique works.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "Beginning from a spare drawing of her mother in her home library, Mary Cassatt created this etching by adding aquatint to her copper plate, creating tonal variations and bold contrasts of light and shadow. This is an extremely rare artist's proof of the second of three versions of the etching. Early prints like Knitting in the Library were private rather than commercial works of art, exercises in experimentation and innovation made by Cassatt as she explored Impressionism.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60762397"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1988.36-knitting-in-the-libr"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "\u201cThe Year in Review for 1988.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30\u201375.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 72, no. 154",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061"
},
{
"citation": "Lees, Sarah, and Richard R. Brettell. Innovative Impressions: Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro. Tulsa, Oklahoma : Philbrook Museum of Art, 2018",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 44; reproduced: p. 45, fig. 44",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Georgopulos, Nicole. \"\"Please Don't Let Your Ambition Sleep\": Cassatt's Professionalism\". In Cassatt - McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds, Caroline Shields, ed., 49-82. Toronto, Ontario: Art Gallery of Ontario; Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2023.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 74-75, 76-77",
"url": ""
}
],
"catalogue_raisonne": "Breeskin 30",
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.36",
"images": {},
"alternate_images": [],
"creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 154218,
"creators": [
{
"id": 3995,
"description": "Mary Cassatt (American, 1844\u20131926)",
"extent": null,
"qualifier": null,
"role": "artist",
"biography": null,
"name_in_original_language": null,
"birth_year": "1844",
"death_year": "1926",
"use_in_caption": true,
"include_extent": false,
"weight": 1
}
],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1988-06-09T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1876,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "c. 1881",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [],
"is_highlight": true,
"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:27.362000"
}
}