Property from a Pennsylvania Family
Portrait of Mrs. Clement B. Newbold
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November 22, 10:23 PM GMT
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800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
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Property from a Pennsylvania Family
Mary Cassatt
1844 - 1926
Portrait of Mrs. Clement B. Newbold
signed Mary Cassatt (lower right)
oil on canvas
canvas: 32 ¼ by 26 inches (81.9 by 66 cm)
framed: 37 by 31½ inches (94 by 80 cm)
Painted in 1894-95.
Mrs. Clement B. Newbold, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1895 (the sitter, commissioned from the artist)
Clement B. Newbold II, 1905 (her son, by descent)
By descent to the present owner
"Pictures by Mary Cassatt," New York Times, April 18, 1895, p. 4 (as A Portrait of Miss S.)
"The Chronicle of Arts," New York Tribune, April 21, 1895, p. 25 (as [No.] 33)
"A Superb Showing of Pictures at the Great Centenary Exhibition," Philadelphia Press, January 22, 1905, p. 9 (as the portrait of Mrs. Newbold)
"The Pennsylvania Academy," New York Evening Post, January 24, 1905, p. 9 (as [a]nother portrait)
Arthur Hoeber, "The Best Art Exhibition," Boston Evening Transcript, January 25, 1905, p. 14 (as Portrait of Miss M.D.S.)
"One Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition of the Academy of the Fine Arts Opens its Doors" Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22, 1905, p. 13 (as Portrait of M.D.S.)
"Choice of Neighbors Hurts Many Pictures on View: Some Impressions of an Additional Study of the One Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 29, 1905, p. 13 (as portrait pictures)
"Centennial Art Exhibit," Wilmington News Journal, January 25, 1905, p. 7 (as a portrait)
"Palette and Brush," The Gilder; Town Topics, vol. 53, January 26, 1905, p. 15 (as Portrait of Mrs. Newbold)
"Audacities," The Club-Fellow 6, February 1, 1905, n.p.
"Audacities," The Club-Fellow 6, March 1, 1905, n.p.
Achille Segard, Mary Cassatt: Un Peintre des Enfants et des Mères, Paris, France, 1916, pp. 67-68 (as le portraitnoir au profil anguleux)
"Philadelphia Show Honors Work of Mary Cassatt," Art News, vol. 25, May 7, 1927, p. 2
Forbes Watson, "Philadelphia Pays Tribute to Mary Cassatt." Arts, June 1927, p. 293, illustrated
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 289, p. 131, illustrated
Ronald Pickvance, "The Literature of Art: A Mary Cassatt Catalogue,” Burlington Magazine, vol. 115, November 1973, no. 289, p. 746
Nancy Hale, Mary Cassatt, Garden City, New York, 1975, p. 177
Richard H. Love, Cassatt: The Independent, 1980, p. 110
Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt, London, England, 1998, p. 27, illustrated
Kevin Sharp, "How Mary Cassatt Became an American Artist," Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, Chicago, Illinois, 1998, no. 39 pp. 173, 358, 361 (as BR 289)
Nancy Mowll Mathews, "'The Greatest Woman Painter': Cecilia Beaux, Mary Cassatt, and Issues of Female Fame," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 124, July 2000, pp. 312, 314, illustrated (as Mrs. Clement B. Newbold (née Mary Scott))
Pamela A. Ivinski, Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt, New York, 2004, no. 8, pp. 23-32
Kevin Sharp, Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter, Oakland, California, 2007, pp. 70-71, illustrated (as Mrs. Clement B. Newbold)
"The Chronicle of Arts," New York Tribune, April 21, 1895, p. 25 (as [No.] 33)
"A Superb Showing of Pictures at the Great Centenary Exhibition," Philadelphia Press, January 22, 1905, p. 9 (as the portrait of Mrs. Newbold)
"The Pennsylvania Academy," New York Evening Post, January 24, 1905, p. 9 (as [a]nother portrait)
Arthur Hoeber, "The Best Art Exhibition," Boston Evening Transcript, January 25, 1905, p. 14 (as Portrait of Miss M.D.S.)
"One Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition of the Academy of the Fine Arts Opens its Doors" Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22, 1905, p. 13 (as Portrait of M.D.S.)
"Choice of Neighbors Hurts Many Pictures on View: Some Impressions of an Additional Study of the One Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 29, 1905, p. 13 (as portrait pictures)
"Centennial Art Exhibit," Wilmington News Journal, January 25, 1905, p. 7 (as a portrait)
"Palette and Brush," The Gilder; Town Topics, vol. 53, January 26, 1905, p. 15 (as Portrait of Mrs. Newbold)
"Audacities," The Club-Fellow 6, February 1, 1905, n.p.
"Audacities," The Club-Fellow 6, March 1, 1905, n.p.
Achille Segard, Mary Cassatt: Un Peintre des Enfants et des Mères, Paris, France, 1916, pp. 67-68 (as le portraitnoir au profil anguleux)
"Philadelphia Show Honors Work of Mary Cassatt," Art News, vol. 25, May 7, 1927, p. 2
Forbes Watson, "Philadelphia Pays Tribute to Mary Cassatt." Arts, June 1927, p. 293, illustrated
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 289, p. 131, illustrated
Ronald Pickvance, "The Literature of Art: A Mary Cassatt Catalogue,” Burlington Magazine, vol. 115, November 1973, no. 289, p. 746
Nancy Hale, Mary Cassatt, Garden City, New York, 1975, p. 177
Richard H. Love, Cassatt: The Independent, 1980, p. 110
Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt, London, England, 1998, p. 27, illustrated
Kevin Sharp, "How Mary Cassatt Became an American Artist," Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, Chicago, Illinois, 1998, no. 39 pp. 173, 358, 361 (as BR 289)
Nancy Mowll Mathews, "'The Greatest Woman Painter': Cecilia Beaux, Mary Cassatt, and Issues of Female Fame," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 124, July 2000, pp. 312, 314, illustrated (as Mrs. Clement B. Newbold (née Mary Scott))
Pamela A. Ivinski, Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt, New York, 2004, no. 8, pp. 23-32
Kevin Sharp, Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter, Oakland, California, 2007, pp. 70-71, illustrated (as Mrs. Clement B. Newbold)