MARY CASSATT | Roman Girl

Private Collection, New York (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 17-18, 1951, lot 289)
Hammer Galleries, New York
Gulf American Galleries, Miami (acquired from the above in 1964)
Danenberg Galleries, New York (acquired from the above by 1968)
Andrew Crispo, New York (acquired in 1968)
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 1968)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, July 1, 1970, lot 15
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, April 19, 1972, lot 56)
Irvin Brenner Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
J. Karel P. van Stuijvenberg, Caracas (acquired from the above by 1977)
Gérard Lases, Paris (acquired by 1999)
Private Collection
Galerie Rienzo, New York
Acquired from the above on November 13, 2000

New York, Kurtz Gallery, Society of American Artists, Second Exhibition, 1879, no. 136 (titled The Mandolin Player) (possibly) 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fiftieth Annual Exhibition, 1879, no. 190 (titled Mandolin Player) (possibly)

"Society of American Artists, The Second Exhibition on Varnishing Day," in New York Evening Mail, March 8, 1879, p. 1 (titled half length of a Spanish lady)
"American Art Methods, The Society of Artists. The Students in Paris," in The New York Times, March 10, 1879, p. 5 (titled The Mandolin Player)
Susan N. Carter, "Exhibition of the Society of American Artists," in New York Art Journal, vol. 5, May 1879, p. 157 (titled The Mandolin Player)
John I.H. Baur, Leaders of American Impressionism, New York, 1937, p. 8 (titled Mandolin Player)
Frederick A. Sweet, Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania, Norman, Oklahoma, 1966, pp. 47-48 (titled Mandolin Player)
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 19, illustrated p. 34
Nancy Hale, Mary Cassatt, Garden City, New York, 1975, pp. 52 & 94 (titled Mandolin Player)
Regina Soria, Dictionary of Nineteenth-century American Artists in Italy, 1760-1914, Teaneck, New Jersey, 1982, p. 80
Suzanne G. Lindsay, Mary Cassatt and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1985, pp. 33 & 90 (titled Mandolin Player)

The canvas is lined and the edges are covered with tape. There is fine surface cracking throughout and the work appears slightly dirty. Under UV: there appear to be a few scattered spots of inpainting in the background, a dot in the figure's back, and a dot in her arm near the elbow.
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This work is included as no. 18 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.