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Mary Cassatt 1845-1926
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Description
- Mary Cassatt
- Young Girl with Brown Hair, Looking Left
- pastel on paper
- 20 1/2 by 19 1/2 in.
- (52.1 by 48.3 cm)
- Executed circa 1880-86.
Provenance
Edgar Degas, Paris, France, by 1883
Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, March 26-27, 1919, no. 103 (as Fillette aux cheveux bruns)
Schömeyer Collection
(possibly) Sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, March 29, 1927
Hjalmar Gabrielson, Göteborg, Sweden
(possibly) A.W. Ericsohn, Sweden, 1957
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, March 20, 1966, no. 42 (as Fillette aux cheveux bruns)
Hammer Galleries, New York
Private collection, 1968 (acquired from the above)
Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, March 26-27, 1919, no. 103 (as Fillette aux cheveux bruns)
Schömeyer Collection
(possibly) Sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, March 29, 1927
Hjalmar Gabrielson, Göteborg, Sweden
(possibly) A.W. Ericsohn, Sweden, 1957
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, March 20, 1966, no. 42 (as Fillette aux cheveux bruns)
Hammer Galleries, New York
Private collection, 1968 (acquired from the above)
Exhibited
Paris, France, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition Mary Cassatt, November-December 1893, no. 26 (as Tête de femme)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1997-January 1998, no. 48
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1997-January 1998, no. 48
Literature
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 212, no. 591, illustrated
Catalogue Note
The Cassatt Committee has confirmed the authorship of this work, although noted that subsequently some pastel work had been added by another hand.