Quietude

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Maker

(artist)
1844-1926

Title

Quietude

Date of Production

1891

Medium

Drypoint

Object Number

G.2023.XX.4

Mode of Acquisition

Richard Mansell-Jones, gift, 2023

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Label Text

Mothers and children, depicted in a matter-of-fact and unsentimental manner unusual for the period, were Mary Cassatt’s favourite subject. A committed and highly experimental printmaker, Cassatt often produced several different states, or versions, of her drypoints.

In this impression of Quietude, Cassatt deliberately left traces of the previous states on the printing plate, here particularly apparent in the woman’s arm and hand and the baby’s legs.

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939); H. M. Petiet (1894 - 1980); Ader, Paris 25 May 2023, lot 105 where purchased by the donor; gift of Richard Mansell-Jones, November 2023.

Exhibition History

From the Baroque to Today: New Acquisitions of Works on Paper, Courtauld Gallery, London, 23/02/2024-27/05/2024

Literature

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979
cat. no. 139

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