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The Visitor (recto); The Visitor (verso)
c. 1881
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Drawings
The Visitor (recto); The Visitor (verso), c. 1881. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Black and tan pencil; sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary 1966.176 Mary Cassatt produced this sheet as a working drawing for an etching of the same title. She framed the subject's slanted silhouette against the verticals and horizontals of the window, and featured a seated figure in profile in the lower left quadrant of the composition. The bold, dramatic contrasts of sunlight and shadow throughout the room contrast with the delicacy and sensitivity with which the visitor's face were drawn by Cassatt from direct observation.
- Maker/Artist
- Cassatt, Mary
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- black and tan pencil
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1966.176
- Credit Line
- Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary
- Exhibitions
- The Impressionist Aesthetic, Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Mary Cassatt at Work
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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