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Collection Online as of April 23, 2024

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
1879–80
(French, 1834–1917)
France, 19th century
softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching
Platemark: 26.7 x 23.2 cm (10 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1929.877
Catalogue raisonné: Reed & Shapiro 51
Location: not on view

Description

This print is one of two in which Edgar Degas depicted Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia at the Musée du Louvre. In this iteration of the subject, Casatt gazes intently at an Etruscan tomb, about 500 BC, excavated at Cerveteri, the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. Cassatt is viewed from behind while the enigmatically smiling couple, lying on top of a sarcophagus and enclosed in a glass case, face the viewer. Cassatt confronts the sculpture directly while Lydia reads about it in a guidebook.
  • Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
    Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007).
    Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994).
    Etchings of Edgar Degas. The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (organizer) (May 3-June 12, 1964).
    Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 5-September 12, 1934).
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