The Letter from the series The Ten
Currently on view
Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926), 1890-1891
drypoint, soft-ground etching and aquatint in colour on laid paper, 42 cm x 31.5 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij, the Mondriaan Fund, the Rembrandt Association (with the additional support from its Maljers-de Jongh Fonds, Het Liesbeth van Dorp Fonds, Marijke Laarhoven Fonds and its Claude Monet Fonds) and the members of the Yellow House Circle)
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Context
- Object number
- p3056S2021
- Edition
- 4th state of 4
- Dimensions
- 42 cm x 31.5 cm, 34.5 cm x 22.8 cm, 34.5 cm x 21.2 cm
- Provenance
- Frederick Starkweather Chase; his daughter Ethel Chase Hurlbut; Mattatuck Historical Society, Connecticut; Knoedler; sold by Knoedler to a private collector; consigned by this private collector to auction New York, Sotheby’s (Old Master, 19th and 20th Century Prints), lot 252 (The Letter), sold for USD 316.000, 4 may 1996; possibly private collection; purchased by a private collector, United States of America, January 2012; sold by this private collector to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam together with p3057S2021, p3058S2021 and p3059S2021, 6 December 2021.
- printmaker
- Mary Cassatt
- printer
- Modeste Leroy
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij, the Mondriaan Fund, the Rembrandt Association (with the additional support from its Maljers-de Jongh Fonds, Het Liesbeth van Dorp Fonds, Marijke Laarhoven Fonds and its Claude Monet Fonds) and the members of the Yellow House Circle)
- signature
- Mary Cassatt by Cassatt, Mary
- inscription
- Imprimée par l’artiste et M. Leroy by Cassatt, Mary
- inscription
- (25 épreuves) by Cassatt, Mary
- inscription
- 30
- mark
- inscription
- 24
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Zonder titel [presentatie nieuwe aanwinsten Cassatt], 11 January-25 April 2022
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