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Mary Cassatt: In the Opera Box   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Mary Cassatt  (1844–1926)  wikidata:Q173223 q:en:Mary Cassatt
 
Mary Cassatt
Alternative names
Birth name: Mary Stevenson Cassatt; Cassatt; Mary Stevenson
Description American painter, printmaker, photographer and etcher
Date of birth/death 22 May 1844 Edit this at Wikidata 14 June 1926 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Pittsburgh Le Mesnil-Théribus Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris, Italy, Egypt
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q173223
Title
In the Opera Box
Date circa 1880
date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium black etching print and aquatint print on wove paper
Dimensions height: 20.4 cm (8 in); width: 18.7 cm (7.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,20.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,18.7U174728
Object history E. Degas (1834-1917), Paris (L. 657).
Notes

In the Opera Box (Breeskin 22) softground, aquatint and etching, circa 1880, on wove paper, an unsigned working proof in an undescribed intermediate state between the third and fourth, final state, with the highlights on her head and shoulder and with the circular light at upper right, but before the the spectators and the decorations on the balcony, probably the full sheet, a deckle edge below, scattered foxing, the sheet slightly toned. P. 204 x 187 mm., S. 299 x 217 mm.

Price realised 21 September 2011 was $58,483.
References Mathews, Nancy Mowll (1994) Mary Cassatt: A Life, Category:New York: Villard (imprint), pp. 139−44 ISBN: 978-0-394-58497-3.
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5473705 (sale 7986, lot 86)
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