The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

After-Dinner Coffee (recto)

c. 1889

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844–1926)
America
graphite
Sheet: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2009.137.a
Location: Not on view

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.
  • ?-1919
    Alfred Beurdeley II [1847-1919], Paris
    1920
    (his ninth sale, Galerie Georges Petit, November 30-December 2, 1920, no. 82, sold to M. Mayer)
    1920-?
    M. Mayer
    ?-1941
    Armand Dorville [1875-1941], Paris/Cubjac
    1942
    (his sale, Hall du Savoy, Nice, June 24-27, 1942 [deuxième vacation, June 25], no. 238, sold to M. Imbert, Cannes)
    1942-?
    M. Imbert, Cannes
    after 1942-before 1974
    (James Vigeveno Galleries, Los Angeles, CA)
    ?-1974
    (Jules Brassner, New York, NY, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH)
    1974-2008
    Muriel Butkin [1915-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2009-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Catalogue des dessins, pastels, aquarelles modernes...composant la collection de M.A. Beurdeley (neuvième vente). Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1920. Mentioned: p. 18, no. 82
    Vente aux enchères du cabinet d'un amateur parisien: catalogue. Nice: Hall du Savoy, 1942. Mentioned: p. 31, no. 238; Reproduced: pl. LVI
  • Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
  • {{cite web|title=After-Dinner Coffee (recto)|url=false|author=Mary Cassatt|year=c. 1889|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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