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The Visitor (verso)

c. 1881

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844–1926)
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Culture
America
Medium
soft ground lines transferred from etching plate
Measurements
Sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary 1966.176.b
Catalogue raisonné
Breeskin 34
State
II/V
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

This drawing's first owner was the artist Edgar Degas, a friend of Cassatt's and a collaborator in her experiments with etching.

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.

The Visitor (verso)

c. 1881

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844–1926)
America

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