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After-Dinner Coffee (verso)

c. 1889

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844–1926)
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Culture
America
Medium
transferred soft (etching) ground
Measurements
Sheet: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2009.137.b
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Not on view
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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, transferred soft ground etching in muted brown tones depicts a light-skinned woman seated facing slightly to our right. She raises a small cup to her mouth with her left hand while her right hand balances a saucer below. She has short hair and wears a top with ruffled shoulders. Sketchy lines outline furniture in the foreground. Handwritten script and No 5018 appear in the bottom right corner.

After-Dinner Coffee (verso)

c. 1889

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844–1926)
America

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