print
- Museum number
- 1919,0415.746
- Title
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Object: Au Louvre: Musée des Antiques (In the Louvre: museum of antiquities)
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Object: Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: the Etruscan Gallery
- Description
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Two women looking into case containing a reclining Etruscan funerary statue, one seated reading from guide book, the other standing leaning on umbrella. c.1879-80
Soft-ground etching, drypoint, aquatint and etching
- Production date
- 1879-1880
- Dimensions
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Height: 270 millimetres
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Width: 236 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro, 'Edgar Degas, the painter as printmaker', Boston 1984, cat.51. It is generally accepted that the standing figure is Mary Cassatt, and the seated one her sister Lydia. This print is based on an earlier pastel in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (Lemoisne ).
The print was intended for inclusion in the journal 'Le Jour et la Nuit' along with prints by Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt and others. The project was never realised. A previously unrecorded touched proof was sold at Sotheby's New York, 8.xi.2002/228. There is a related pencil drawing of a glass case of Etruscan sculptures in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass. (1971.36; ex-collection of Marcel Guérin).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2020, 20 February – 9 August, London, BM, G90, ‘French Impressions: prints from Manet to Cézanne’ (on display until 23 March 2020 - exhibition closed due to COVID)
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,0415.746
