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Mary Cassatt

Roman Girl

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March 16, 04:41 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Mary Cassatt

1844 - 1926

Roman Girl


signed M.S. Cassatt (lower left)

oil on canvas

28 by 23 in.

71 by 58 cm.

Executed in 1873-74.


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.

Private Collection, New York

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17-18 April 1951, lot 289 (consigned by the above)

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)

Sotheby's London, 1 July 1970, lot 15

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 19 April 1972, lot 56 (consigned by the above)

Irvin Brenner Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

J. Karel P. van Stuijvenberg, Caracas (acquired from the above by 1977)

Gérard Lases, Paris (acquired by 1999)

Private Collection

Galerie Rienzo, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above on 13 November 2000)

Sotheby's New York, 15 May 2019, lot 163 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

(possibly) New York, Kurtz Gallery, Society of American Artists, Second Exhibition, 1879, no. 136 (as The Mandolin Player

(possibly) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fiftieth Annual Exhibition, 1879, no. 190 (as Mandolin Player)

"Society of American Artists, The Second Exhibition on Varnishing Day," New York Evening Mail, 8 March 1879, p. 1 (as half length of a Spanish lady)

"American Art Methods, The Society of Artists. The Students in Paris," The New York Times, 10 March 1879, p. 5 (as The Mandolin Player)

Susan N. Carter, "Exhibition of the Society of American Artists," New York Art Journal, vol. 5, May 1879, p. 157 (as The Mandolin Player)

John I.H. Baur, Leaders of American Impressionism, New York, 1937, p. 8 (as Mandolin Player)

Frederick A. Sweet, Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania, Norman, Oklahoma, 1966, pp. 47-48 (as Mandolin Player)

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 19, p. 34, illustrated

Nancy Hale, Mary Cassatt, Garden City, New York, 1975, pp. 52 & 94 (as 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 (as Mandolin Player)