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After-Dinner Coffee (recto)

c. 1889

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844–1926)
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Culture
America
Medium
graphite
Support
Cream wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2009.137.a
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Cassatt exhibited prints for the first time in 1880 at the fifth Impressionist exhibition. As the decade progressed, she continued to show her graphic work alongside pastels and paintings. In the spring of 1890, at the Deuxième Exposition de Peintres-Graveurs, she showed a group of drypoints, remarkable in their delicacy and precision, as well as a group of prints made with a combination of aquatint and softground etching that appeared quickly drawn and spontaneous. After-Dinner Coffee is a study for a softground etching with aquatint.
A vertically oriented graphite drawing on tan paper depicts a woman with light skin tone seated and looking toward our left. She holds a cup near her face with her right hand and a saucer with her left. Her dark hair is pulled back and she wears a dress with puffed shoulders. Her left arm rests on a tiered wooden stand. Sparse, streaking lines and cross-hatching shade her face and clothing.

After-Dinner Coffee (recto)

c. 1889

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844–1926)
America

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