Mary Cassatt 1845-1926

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Description

Mary Cassatt
Femme Tenant son Enfant sur Les Genoux (Mother Jeanne Holding Her Baby)
stamped with the Mathilde X collection stamp (Lugt 2665a), l.l.; stamped with the Mathilde X collection stamp on the backing
pencil on paper
12 5/8 by 9 3/8 in.
32 by 23.9 cm
Executed circa 1908

Provenance

Aquired directly from the artist by Mathilde Valet in 1927 (housekeeper and companion to Cassatt)
Paris, France; Sale: Paris, Mathilde X, 1931
Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1966

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie A.-M. Reitlinger, Dessins, Pastels, Peintures, Etudes par Mary Cassatt, cat. no. 146

Literature

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 922, p. 301