Mimi Seated, Wearing a Sleeveless Dress

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

about 1889

Medium/TechniqueDrypoint

DimensionsPlatemark: 22.6 x 16 cm (8 7/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 44.5 x 31.3 cm (17 1/2 x 12 5/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Thomas Hockley

Accession number16.479

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InscriptionsRecto: in graphite, below plate, lower right: Mary Cassatt; in graphite, lower left corner: 3 proofs only and plate then destroyed; in graphite, lower center: printed by the artist; in graphite, lower right corner: 15 Verso: in graphite, lower left corner: 3 proofs only plate destroyed/ C8705/ C3672 (underscored and crossed out)/ as--; in graphite, inside plate, lower right corner: 70eu net (illeg.)

ProvenanceBy 1916, Kennedy and Company (active 1912-1952), New York; by 1916, sold by Kennedy & Co. to Mrs. Thomas Hockley, Boston; 1916, gift of Hockley to the MFA. (Accession date: March 26, 2015)