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Mary Cassatt

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Description

  • Mary Cassatt
  • By the Pond (B. 161; Matthews/Shapiro 1896)
  • sheet 395 by 490 mm 15 5/8 by 19 1/4 in
Drypoint, c. 1898, a fine impression of the very rare second state (of four), before the addition of aquatint and colors, signed in pencil, on Vanderley laid paper, with margins, in good condition apart from three very pale fox marks in the lower sheet at left, pale discoloration in the margins, a flattened horizontal crease through the lower margin, almost at the sheet edge

Catalogue Note

This print is most likely one of the two impressions of this state identified by Matthews and Shapiro (citing Breeskin), but never located.