Mary Cassatt

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Description

Mary Cassatt
Nurse and Baby Bill (No. 2) (Breeskin 109)
220 by 135 mm 8 5/8 by 5 1/4 in sheet 387 by 232 mm 15 1/4 by 9 1/4 in

Soft-ground etching, 1889, the second (final) state, signed in pencil, on laid paper with the Vanderley watermark, with wide margins, in good condition aside from occasional soft creases and surface soiling in the margins, remains of adhesive at the sheet edges, verso, pale light-stain

Catalogue Note

Ex coll. Marcel Guérin (Lugt 1872b)

Breeskin notes that Galerie Durand-Ruel's 1893 catalogue for the Exposition Mary Cassatt identifies an edition of 25 printed impressions and states that the preparatory drawing for the print exists.